United States v. D'Apice’s Empirical Analysis
664 F.2d 75 · 1981
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably United States v. Thevis (1982), United States v. Roberson (1989)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Kastigar v. United States · Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Hoffman v. United States · Babich v. United States
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our decision does not foreclose the possibility that, in a different case, a prosecutor’s non-statutory immunity commitment may be held enforceable, ... nor does it preclude a finding that an informal grant of use immunity by a prosecutor in one district is binding in another district or even on the entire government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well established that the federal government will not be bound by a contract or agreement entered into by one of its agents unless such agent is acting within the limits of his actual authority”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'though no criminal charges are pending against him .... and even if the risk of prosecution is remote.'”
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.