United States v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
609 F.2d 230 · 1980
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), United States v. Thevis (1982)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 14 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on Pointer v. Texas · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Diaz v. United States · Brookhart v. Janis · Lascaris v. Shirley
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel in a criminal case may waive his client's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation by stipulating to the admission of evidence, so long as the defendant does not dissent from his attorney's decision, and so long as it can be said that the attorney's decision was a legitimate trial tactic or part of a prudent trial strategy.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law of this Circuit is that claims of inadequate representation cannot be determined on direct appeal where such claims were not raised before the District Court and there has been no opportunity to develop and include in the record evidence bearing on the merits of the allegations. United States v. Rodriguez, 582 F.2d 1015 , 1016 (5th Cir.1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“legitimate trial tactic or part of a prudent trial strategy.”
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.