United States v. Cameron’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.2d 752 · 1977
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States v. Mendoza (1978), United States v. Phillips (2000)
19 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Romano v. United States · Funk v. United States · Beck v. United States · Hawkins 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The basic reason the law has refused to pit wife against husband or husband against wife in a trial where life or liberty is at stake was a belief that such a policy was necessary to foster family peace, not only for the benefit of the husband, wife and children, but for the benefit of the public as well. Such a belief has never been unreasonable and is not now. . . . Under these circumstances we are unable to subscribe to the idea that an exclusionary rule based on the persistent instincts of several centuries should now be abandoned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a great disparity between the amount of time that the couple cohabited and the time that one of the other chose not to live together,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a more permanent living arrangement with another partner than with his spouse”
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.