United States v. Metz’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 147 · 1979
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably United States v. Gallo (1985), United States v. Tarantino (1988)
96 federal appellate · 3 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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Barker v. Wingo · Franks v. Delaware · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat the indictment did not charge appellants with active participation in each phase of the conspiracy does not effect misjoinder.”
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.