United States v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 970 · 1987
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Leon Guerrero (1988), Collazo v. Estelle (1991)
87 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 2313
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Agurs · Colorado v. Connelly · California v. Trombetta · Vandygriff v. Phillips
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“judgment about the values that animate legal principles.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Deference to the district court's factual finding[s] is especially warranted here when the critical evidence is testimonial; the 'judge was in the unique position to observe the demeanor of both [the defendant] and the police [officer] while we have only the cold record, which is sterile by comparison.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Due process does not bar the use of a confession as evidence unless government officials employed coercive interrogation tactics which rendered the defendant's confession 'involuntary' as a matter of law.”
4 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.