Look v. Amaral’s Empirical Analysis
725 F.2d 4 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Victor Wayne Hooks v. Ron Ward (1999), United States v. Chandler (1993)
9 federal appellate · 7 district · 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
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Beck v. Alabama · United States v. MacDonald · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Commonwealth v. Look
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]efense counsel may well have felt that, on the evidence, the jury would be more likely to convict on manslaughter than to acquit, but if given a choice only between a murder conviction and acquittal that an acquittal was more likely. Nothing in Beck or elsewhere prevents a defendant from making such a strategic choice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“circumstances strongly suggest . . . that [the defendant] gambled with his right, hoping . . . that either his case would be overlooked or that, unreminded, the [government's] - 17 - delay would ripen into a period that would improve his chances for acquittal on [S]ixth [A]mendment grounds”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant's assertion of or failure to assert his right to a speedy trial is one of the factors to be considered”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.