United States v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 257 · 1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably United States v. Tarantino (1988), United States v. Presser (1988)
11 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on United States v. Jackson · United States v. Roberts
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the statements of persons other than the defendant are sought, questions of witness safety necessarily arise. The phrase “witness safety” incorporates our concerns about those persons whose incul-patory statements may be introduced at trial .... the disclosure of eo-eonspirator statements may expose not only the de-clarant to threats and intimidation, but also those expected to testify at trial concerning the declarant’s statements. [Pretrial production would] endanger government witnesses by circumventing the protections of the Jencks Act, and we reject it.”
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.