United States v. Rinn’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 113 · 1978
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably United States v. Dennis (1980), United States v. Vinson (1979)
27 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Giglio v. United States · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · Ryan v. United States · Joseph Skilken & Co. v. City of Toledo · Central Illinois Public Service Co. 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although one tape was partly unintelligible, the unintelligible portions were not sufficient to defeat its probative value as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in response to interrogation by any person then known to the defendant to be a government agent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.