United States v. Nightingale’s Empirical Analysis
703 F.2d 17 · 1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2019
11 federal appellate · 1 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. § 401
Relies on United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Shillitani v. United States · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Maness v. Meyers · Yates 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendants made a deliberate decision to refuse a court order to testify; they must now face the consequences of that decision”
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.