United States v. Lenz’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 960 · 1980
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably United States v. Thevis (1982), United States v. Pennell (1984)
37 federal appellate · 20 state decisions — followed in 12 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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 6002 · 18 U.S.C. § 6003
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Washington v. Texas · Kastigar v. United States · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · Santoni 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The short answer to this contention is that defendants have no compulsory-process right to have their witnesses immunized. The cases decided under the compulsory process clause of the sixth amendment hold only that the Government may not act to prevent an otherwise willing witness from testifying for the defendant. See Webb v. Texas, 409 U.S. 95 , 98 S.Ct. 851 , 34 L.Ed.2d 330 (1972); Washington v. Texas, 388 U.S. 14 , 87 S.Ct. 1920 , 18 L.Ed.2d 1019 (1967); United States v. Morrison, 535 F.2d 223 (3d Cir.1976). So far as we are aware, no court has held that compulsory process requires the Government to exercise its statutory use-immunity power affirmatively for a defendant’s benefit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dachtler“18 U.S.C. § 6003 commits the decision to grant or deny immunity to the sole discretion of the executive branch of government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.