United States v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 1429 · 1986
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably United States v. Presser (1988), United States v. Whitworth (1988)
25 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Barrett v. United States · Reavis v. Antinore · Landreth Timber Co. v. Landreth
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he plain meaning of a statute is controlling absent a clearly expressed congressional intention to the contrary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Upon request of a defendant the government must disclose to the defendant and make available for inspection, copying, or photographing: any relevant written or recorded statements made by the defendant, or copies thereof, within the possession, custody, or control of the government, the existence of which is known, or by the exercise of due diligence may become known, to the attorney for the government; that portion of any written record containing the substance of any relevant oral statement made by the defendant whether before or after arrest in response to interrogation by any person then known to the defendant to be a government agent.... The government must also disclose to the defendant the substance of any other relevant oral statement made by the defendant whether before or after arrest in response to interrogation by any person then known by the defendant to be a government agent if the government intends to use that statement at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Oral' statements encompass written summaries and notes of oral statements prepared by government agents.”
2 later decisions 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.