United States v. Shears’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 397 · 1985
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably United States v. Pelton (1987), Miller v. Fenton (1986)
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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. § 3731
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Jackson v. Denno · Lego v. Twomey · Patterson v. United States · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp.
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.
“[g]overnment agents may initiate conversations on cooperation [and] promise to make a defendant's cooperation known to the prosecutor....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An appeal by the United States shall lie to a court of appeals from a decision or order of a district court suppressing or excluding evidence ..., not made after the defendant has been put in jeopardy ..if the United States Attorney certifies to’ the district court that' the appeal is not taken for the purpose of delay and that the evidence is a substantial proof of a fact material in the proceeding.”
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.