United States v. Spiegel’s Empirical Analysis
604 F.2d 961 · 1979
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017 · most notably Holloway v. United States (1980), United States v. Winter (1981)
53 federal appellate · 21 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
Relies on Sandstrom v. Montana · Estelle v. Williams · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Henry v. State of Mississippi · Patton 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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“become or are found to be unable or disqualified to perform their duties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a waiver made by counsel of the right to a twelve-person jury after intelligent and deliberate discussion in open court satisfies rule 23(b) [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure] and passes constitutional muster.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[cjounsel here made a tactical decision and urged it on the trial judge over the prosecution’s protest; that conduct served to waive any objection the appellants might have had to proceeding with eleven jurors.”
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.