Augustus v. Roemer’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2016
2 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. § 3141 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Salerno · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he test is whether [the individual's] situation is one `which would offer a possible temptation to the average man as a judge to forget the burden of proof required to convict the defendant, or which might lead him not to hold the balance nice, clear and true between the State and the accused....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“smacks of administrative detail and of procedure and is hardly to be classified as a `fundamental' right or as based upon any suspect criterion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the Government's proposed conditions of release or detention not be `excessive' in light of the perceived evil.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.