United States v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
636 F.2d 727 · 1980
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2001
9 federal appellate · 9 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Stovall v. Denno · Curley v. United States · United States v. Telfaire
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conceivably the greatest single threat to the achievement of our ideal that no innocent men shall be punished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Brown v. Davis
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.