United States v. Leitner’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 159 · 1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably United States v. Russell (1986), 726 F. Supp. 389 - Ahmad v. Wigen (1989)
5 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 Washington Post Co. v. Rebozo · Wititaker Wright v. William Henkel · United States v. Williams · Hu Yau-Leung v. Soscia · In re Mitchell
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[U]rgency' is not merely temporal in nature. Rather, the term involves other considerations including importance to the country seeking extradition and foreign policy concerns of the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if any, were either available to him or denied him. Moreover, we note that his contention that he was denied counsel appears inconsistent with the factual allegations in Sahagian’s pro se complaint in which he alleged that he had retained an attorney in Spain. We also note that Sahagian’s claims appear to be based upon an exaggerated notion of the rights guaranteed persons in extradition proceedings in the United States. For example, there is a presumption against bail in extradition cases that can only be overcome by a showing of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[U]rgency' [is] less related to immediacy than to the importance of the case given the nature of the crime, the risk of flight, and the interests of the countries in extradition. The broader interpretation of the term that takes into account the interests of the treaty parties seems the appropriate one.”
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.