Groseclose v. Plummer’s Empirical Analysis
106 F.2d 311 · 1939
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2013
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Royall · John McDonald v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Moore v. State of Missouri · Boardman v. Toffey · Henry Urquhart v. Thomas Brown
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the great weight of authority support[s] the more realistic view that a pardon, to the extent of its terms, does nothing more than to abolish all restrictions upon the liberty of the pardoned one, and upon his civil rights that follow a felony conviction and sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sang Man Shin v. State · In Re Shin“[t]his is the same as saying that executive clemency clears the boards as thoroughly as the granting of a new trial and subsequent acquittal would do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Shin“not turn back the hand of time[;] ... the stubborn fact remains that the habit of crime was upon him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Shin
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.