United States v. Partin’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.2d 621 · 1977
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 4 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), United States v. Thevis (1982)
127 federal appellate · 4 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1505 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 4244 · 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Branzburg v. Hayes · Murphy v. Florida · United States v. Dionisio · Eisenstadt v. Baker
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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the performance of acts required by law in the discharge of duties such as appearing as a witness and giving truthful testimony when subpoenaed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] witness may not claim the privilege out of fear that he will be prosecuted for perjury for what he is about to say, although he may claim the privilege if his new testimony might suggest that he had perjured himself in testifying on the same subject at a prior proceeding.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'no-deposit/no-return judges, disposable after one use'”
2 later decisions 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.