United States v. Plummer’s Empirical Analysis
941 F.2d 799 · 1991
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Pielago (1998), Michael Anthony v. Steven Cambra, Jr., Warden (2000)
48 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Kastigar v. United States · Dennis v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Douglas Oil Company of California v. Petrol Stops Northwest · Anthony 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a common understanding ... in the criminal justice world”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he government is not bound by the procedures and requirements of the use immunity statute when granting immunity in the form of a contractual agreement, and ordinary contract principles apply when interpreting the agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“will not be used against him or to incriminate him.”
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.