Mayes v. Sowders’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 850 · 1980
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably United States v. Bourjaily (1986), Steele v. Taylor (1982)
20 federal appellate · 6 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · North Carolina v. Alford · Davis v. Alaska · California v. Green
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A witness is not available for full and effective cross-examination when he or she refused to testify. Douglas v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 415 , 85 S.Ct. 1074 , 13 L.Ed.2d 934 (1965); Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 , 88 S.Ct. 1620 , 20 L.Ed.2d 476 (1968); Nelson v. O’Neil, 402 U.S. 622 , 91 S.Ct. 1723 , 29 L.Ed.2d 222 (1971). This is equally true whether the refusal to testify is predicated on privilege or is punishable as contempt, so long as the refusal to testify is not procured by the defendant. Douglas v. Alabama, supra, 380 U.S. at 420, 85 S.Ct. at 1077 ; Motes v. United States, 178 U.S. 458, 471 , 20 S.Ct. 993, 998 , 44 L.Ed. 1150 (1900); United States v. Mayes, 512 F.2d 637, 650-52 (6th Cir.), cert. den., 422 U.S. 1008 , 95 S.Ct. 2629 , 45 L.Ed.2d 670 (1975).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Beecham’s statement that Mayes killed the gas station attendant was not corroborated by Mayes’ own confession, or any other evidence in the case. The oral statement was made during a custodial interrogation of Beecham, after Beecham had been shoum Mayes’ statement that Beecham had been the guilty party. The statement was self-serving.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tyler v. State“gave his name and address, answered two questions put to him by the prosecutor in the negative, and thereafter refused to testify further despite a conference in the Judge's chambers and ultimately a contempt citation by the court.”
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.