United States v. D.F.’s Empirical Analysis
63 F.3d 671 · 1995
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably United States v. D.F. (1997), United States v. Birbal (1997)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 10 U.S.C. § 831 · 18 U.S.C. § 1111 · 18 U.S.C. § 1153 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Gault · Dandridge v. Williams · Colorado v. Connelly · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Oregon v. Elstad
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“coercion — indeed, a bit of overreaching— by government officials. Staff members at the Center were either enlisted or volunteered to act as law enforcement surrogates in eliciting confessions from troubled teens. There is extensive evidence in the record of the close relationship between staff at the center and Protective Services, the juvenile court system, and the F.B.I. There is also evidence that many of the staff at the Center saw themselves as an arm of law enforcement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as long as she continued to make progress”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Fifth Amendment provides that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. The admission of an involuntary confession violates due process. A confession will be found to be voluntary only if the government can demonstrate that, under the totality of the circumstances and by a preponderance of the evidence, it was not secured by the government through psychological or physical intimidation, but rather was the product of a rational intellect and free will.”
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.