United States v. Sayers’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.2d 1128 · 1983
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably United States v. Janik (1983), United States v. Haimowitz (1984)
27 federal appellate · 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. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 18 U.S.C. § 3162 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Russell · United States v. MacDonald · Cohen v. United States · United States v. Tobias · United States v. Gianni
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“establishes that Congress intended the provisions of the Act to apply only if an individual was formally charged with an offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an individual is being held, either physically or legally to answer to a charge....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the language of Section 3161(b) suggests that 'arrest' entails some accusation,”
2 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.