United States v. Schultz’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.2d 365 · 1983
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably United States v. O'Connell (1988), United States v. Alvarez (1988)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act)
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Anderson v. Charles · Freeman v. Zahradnick · United States v. Lewis
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is not a case ... in which the defendant was completely silent after his arrest.... Therefore, when he chose to testify at trial, he was subject to cross-examination with respect to his prior, arguably inconsistent statement concerning the same subject matter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The prosecutor is free to comment on the failure of the defendant to call an available alibi witness.”
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.