United States v. Buckner’s Empirical Analysis
108 F.2d 921 · 1940
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently May 1997 · most notably United States v. Mandel (1979), United States v. Margiotta (1982)
71 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Berger v. United States · Durland v. United States · Raffel v. United States · United States v. Manton · Antoine Michoud v. Peronne Bernardine Girod
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even from the printed record we can ■see the vigor with which the prosecutor .pressed the case, vigor which at times went beyond the canons of decorum and dignity which an officer of the United States should observe. The prosecutor was not averse to indulging his talent for spectacle. * * * Nor was the intemperance of several attacks made upon de-' fendants and their counsel in keeping with the Supreme Court’s reminder that the prosecutor is to regard himself as ‘the servant of the law.’ Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78 , 55 S.Ct. 629 , 79 L.Ed. 1314 . We cannot approve such conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(u)sing a fiduciary position . . . to obtain secret profits based upon inside information is not only a breach of trust, but an active fraud on the bondholders.”
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.