United States v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
641 F.2d 659 · 1980
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably United States v. Moran (1985), Britt v. Simi Valley Unified School District (1983)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 2423 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 28 U.S.C. § 631 (Federal Magistrate Act of 1979) · 28 U.S.C. § 634 · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on United States v. Lovasco · United States v. Raddatz · Patterson v. United States · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Douglas v. Alabama
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rationale, the Magistrates Act comports with Article III because it subjects magistrates' rulings to de novo determination by a federal district judge. See United States v. Raddatz, 447 U.S. 667 , 681-684, 100 S.Ct. 2406, 2415-16, 65 L.Ed.2d 424 (1980) (magistrate conducted suppression hearing); Mathews v. Weber, 423 U.S. 261 , 266-72, 96 S.Ct. 549, [46 L.Ed.2d 483] (1976) (social security case referred to magistrate for preliminary findings and recommendation). Thus, the Supreme Court has allowed magistrates to perform”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the prejudicial effect of the deceased witness's missing testimony was indefinite and speculative”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“incompetency, misconduct, neglect of duty, or physical or mental disability,”
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.