United States v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.2d 657 · 1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2013
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Jackson v. Denno · Barrett v. United States · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that [a defendant] failed to sign the waiver of rights form is not enough, in itself, to bar admission of the confessions, where other circumstances indicate that the statement was voluntarily given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Starr v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.