United States v. Bird’s Empirical Analysis
709 F.2d 388 · 1983
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Mechanik (1986), United States v. Abbamonte (1985)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Catlin v. United States · Abney v. United States · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · Cobbledick 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the agreement is phrased in terms of nonprosecution, its essence is a promise of immunity. [The defendant's] immunity from punishment will not be lost simply because she is forced to stand trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is value--to all but the most unusual litigant--in triumphing before trial, rather than after it ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“immunity from punishment will not be lost simply because [the defendant] is forced to stand trial.”
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.