United States v. Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis
691 F.2d 639 · 1982
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2017
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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. § 1020 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Ceccolini · United States v. Shaefer, Michael & Clairton Slag, Inc.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the degree of free will exercised by the witness is not irrelevant in determining the extent to which the basic purpose of the exclusionary rule will be advanced by its application”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“stemmed from his voluntary decision to promote his own interests with respect to sentencing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Briggs
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.