United States v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
610 F.2d 504 · 1979
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably United States v. York (1987), Dillon v. Nissan Motor Co. (1993)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 1111
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Harrington v. California · Bates v. State Bar · United States v. Williams
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is fundamental that where the defendant 'opened the door' and 'invited error' there can be no reversible error.”
6 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.