United States v. Monaco’s Empirical Analysis
735 F.2d 1173 · 1984
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Layton (1988), United States v. Owens (1988)
22 federal appellate · 2 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. § 152
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Ohio v. Roberts · Chambers v. Mississippi · Dutton v. Evans
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts have closely scrutinized statements made while the declarant is in custody and offered against the accused, and have consistently held that the circumstances render such statements unreliable”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so far tended to subject the declarant to civil or criminal liability... that a reasonable person in the declarant's position would not have made the statement unless believing it to be true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the corroboration expressly required for exculpatory statements into the rule as applied to inculpatory statements [have done so] in order to satisfy the confrontation clause.”
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.