United States v. Sutherland’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 765 · 1991
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Brooks (1994), United States v. Casas (2004)
51 federal appellate · 11 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. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Berger v. United States · Holland v. United States · Montana v. United States
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an extreme case of flagrant abuse of the law by state officials, where federal officials seek to capitalize on that abuse”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]vidence obtained in violation of neither the Constitution nor federal law is admissible in federal court proceedings without regard to state law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be charged in one or more counts together or separately and all of the defendants need not be charged in each count.”
2 later decisions 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.