Summers v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
11 F.2d 583 · 1926
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Putnam Resources v. Pateman (1992), State v. Pare (2000)
16 federal appellate · 15 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Diaz v. United States · United States v. Carll · Frohwerk v. United States · Potter v. United States · Jaybird Mining Co. v. Weir
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“remains an undispersed unit, within control of the court,”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The general rule is as stated in Abbott’s Trial Brief, Criminal Causes, p. 780: ‘After a verdict has been rendered, and the jury, after being discharged, have separated, the jury cannot be recalled to amend their verdict. But the mere announcement of their discharge does not, before they have dispersed and mingled with the bystanders, preclude recalling them.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dietz v. Bouldin · Hoffert v. State
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.