United States v. Irvine’s Empirical Analysis
756 F.2d 708 · 1985
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably United States v. Disla (1986), United States v. Lewis (1986)
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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. § 6003
Relies on Kastigar v. United States · United States v. Arnett · United States v. Friedman · Shakey's Incorporated v. Covalt Shakey's Incorporated · United States v. Kurzer
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally speaking, a cooperation-immunity agreement is contractual in nature and subject to contract law standards.... The language of the contract is to be read as a whole and given a reasonable interpretation, not an interpretation that would produce absurd results.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The defendant] testified pursuant to an agreement entered into freely on his own initiative and for his own purposes. [He] was free to agree to conditions that could not have been imposed upon him had he chosen to claim his Fifth Amendment privilege.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The language of the contract is to be read as a whole and given a reasonable interpretation (Citation omitted), not an interpretation that would produce absurd results. (Citation omitted.) “[I]t is our task to construe the words used to try, if possible, to carry out the intention of the parties in light of all the facts and surrounding circumstances.... ” (Citation omitted.)”
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.