United States v. Hocking’s Empirical Analysis
860 F.2d 769 · 1988
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably United States v. Griffin (1990), United States v. Fazio (1990)
80 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Glasser v. United States · Colorado v. Connelly · Stirone v. United States · Oregon v. Mathiason
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the defendant's will was overborne at the time he confessed'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“'In contrast to the presumption of coercion that attends statements given during custodial interrogation in the absence of Miranda warnings, statements made during a noncustodial interrogation are not viewed with suspicion.' " United States v. Hocking, 860 F.2d 769 , 774 (7th Cir.1988) (quoting United States v. Serlin, 707 F.2d 953 , 958 (7th Cir.1983)). Although the Supreme Court has recognized that even noncustodial interrogations " 'might possibly in some situations, by virtue of some special circumstances, be characterized as one where "the behavior of ... law enforcement officials was such as to overbear [an interrogee's] will to resist and bring about confessions not freely self-determined,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“commerce is affected when an enterprise, which either is actively engaged in interstate commerce or customarily purchases items in interstate commerce, has its assets depleted through extortion, thereby curtailing the victim's potential as a purchaser of such goods.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.