Devore v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2008
9 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. § 5010
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Michelson v. United States · Luce v. United States · Dorszynski v. United States · Prestidge v. United States
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by introducing a character witness ... elects to prove his good name, he draws aside by his own hand whatever veil the law may otherwise place over his youthful conduct....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it seems reasonably likely... that community members in general will have heard of a juvenile's commission of wrongful acts, independently of any arrest or adjudication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While the adjudication itself is secret, the fact that a juvenile has been to court or was sentenced to a juvenile facility may be known in the community.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.