Yount v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 956 · 1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2002
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 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. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wainwright v. Sykes · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Irvin v. Dowd · Brown v. Allen
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“custody' when the government has in some meaningful manner imposed a significant restraint on a suspect's freedom of action. Yount v. Patton, 710 F.2d 956, 961 (3d Cir. 1983) "(Something must be said or done by the authorities, either in their manner of approach, or in the tone or extent of their questioning which indicates that they would not have heeded a request to depart.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'[a] thorough and skillfully conducted voir dire should be adequate to identify juror bias, even in a community saturated with publicity adverse to the defendant.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Patton v. Yount · Jordan v. Lippman“It is police compulsion, and not the strength of police suspicions, which places a suspect in custody.”
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.