United States v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 87 · 1976
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably United States v. Myers (1982), Roe v. United States (1986)
33 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 18 U.S.C. § 875 · 28 U.S.C. § 515
Relies on United States v. Dionisio · Davis v. Alaska · Corallo v. United States · Costarelli v. Massachusetts · Miller v. Rhay
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a one-time sanction to encourage - 44 - uniformity of practice . . . between the Strike Force and the United States Attorney.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the prosecutor believes that a witness is a potential defendant he should not seek to compel his testimony before the grand jury without informing him that he may be charged and that he should seek independent legal advice concerning his rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.