United States v. Leone’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 246 · 1987
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably United States v. Long (1990), United States v. Menzer (1994)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Wade · Gilbert v. California · United States v. Dionisio · Lawson v. Credithrift of America
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t strain[ed] credulity to argue that uttering the phrases: 'About an hour,' 'I took the phone off the hook, one of them,' and 'I did, which [welre totally void of any incriminatory content, amount[ed] to an admission of guilt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In any case in which a plea of not guilty is entered, the trial of a defendant charged in an information or indictment with the commission of an offense shall commence within seventy days from the filing date (and making public) of the information or indictment, or from the date the defendant has appeared before a judicial officer of the court in which such charge is pending, whichever date last occurs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the information or indictment is dismissed upon motion of the attorney for the government and thereafter a charge is filed against the defendant for the same offense, or any offense required to be joined with that offense, any period of delay from the date the charge was dismissed to the date the time limitation would commence to run as to the subsequent charge had there been no previous charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.