United States v. Garcia-Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 956 · 1977
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably United States v. United States (1985), United States v. Wanless (1989)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Glasser v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Cupp v. Naughten
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party has no vested interest in any particular form of instructions . . . the language of the instructions is for the trial court to determine. If on the entire charges it appears that the jury has been fairly and adequately instructed, the requirements of the law are satisfied.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A trial judge need not give an instruction proposed by counsel on either side, provided he gives adequate instructions on each element of the case.”
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.