United States v. Cotner’s Empirical Analysis
657 F.2d 1171 · 1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2015
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 876
Relies on Gilbert v. California · United States v. Mara · Bonanno v. United States · United States v. Pheaster · United States v. Lincoln
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he taking of handwriting exemplars does not violate the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, [or] the Fourth Amendment right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
3 later decisions 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.