United States v. Rohrbach’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 142 · 1987
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 11 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Derrick v. Rs Peterson (1990), McCall v. Dutton (1988)
30 federal appellate · 11 district · 8 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Colorado v. Connelly · Oregon v. Elstad · Miller v. Fenton · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Connecticut v. Barrett
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Connelly makes it clear that ... personal characteristics of the defendant are constitutionally irrelevant absent proof of coercion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“coercive police activity is a necessary predicate to the finding that a confession is not `voluntary' within the meaning of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“His argument is not that the agents (or anyone else, for that matter) used coercive tactics, but that his personal characteristics, including minimal formal education and a history of alcohol and drug abuse and of suicide attempts, are indicative of an easily overborne will. That argument is legally indistinguishable from the argument unsuccessfully advanced by the defendant in Connelly . Although we believe that personal characteristics such as those on which Rohr-bach relies would be relevant to the vol-untariness issue once coercive police activity has been shown, Connelly makes it clear that such personal characteristics of the defendant are constitutionally irrelevant absent proof of “coercion brought to bear on the defendant by the state.””
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.