United States ex rel. Burke v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
756 F.2d 1295 · 1985
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Sblendorio (1987), 111 Ill. 2d 180 - People v. Neal (1985)
53 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Blockburger v. United States · Griffin v. California · Missouri v. Hunter · United States v. Hasting · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'language used was manifestly intended to be or was of such a character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment on the defendant's failure to testify.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant has the absolute right not to testify. The fact that the defendant did not testify should not be considered by you in any way in arriving at your verdict.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“highly unlikely that at least a portion of the testimony could have been contradicted by anyone other than the defendant”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Lane · Freeman v. Lane
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.