United States v. Fera’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 590 · 1980
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably United States v. McLernon (1984), United States v. Sebetich (1985)
66 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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. § 3501 · 18 U.S.C. § 473
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Russell · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Patterson v. United States · Lewis 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the trial judge determines that [a] confession was voluntarily made it shall be admitted in evidence and the trial judge shall permit the jury to hear relevant evidence on the issue of voluntariness and shall instruct the jury to give such weight to the confession as the jury feels it deserves under all the circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“afford[ed] the defendant the opportunity for commission of the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sometimes necessary and permissible for the Government to use stratagems, artifices, ruses and undercover agents or investigators who may use assumed names and conceal their true identity and who, in order to discover violators of the Federal criminal laws, present opportunities to violate those laws to those who are predisposed, ready and willing to violate those laws.” 616 F.2d at 596 . 6 . The remarks of Senator Kennedy are typical of Congress’s concern.”
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.