United States v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
113 F. 683 · 1902
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1963
11 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Agnew v. United States · United States v. Greene · United States v. Greene · Doyle 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not averred that the names in the .jury box did not conform to the names on the jury list or book referred to. It is averred that’ a deputy clerk placed these names in ■the jury box. This would not, in my judgment, have been a violation of law, and assuredly would not have disqualified the jurors whose names were placed in the box, provided the clerk was present, took part in the selection of the names, and supervised the manual act of placing the tickets in the box. Whart. Cr. Law p. 171. While the statute on this subject is apparently mandatory, and while, in my opinion, there is a personal trust imposed by the act of congress upon the individual who is the clerk, yet, in the absence of any charge of bad faith or corrupt motive in the selection of a jury, or other conduct prejudicial to the defendant, if he fails to ■comply with literal strictness to the provision •of the statute, yet does substantially comply, his action will not be regarded as vicious and unlawful. This is especially true where no juror selected is alleged to be disqualified, and no intimation of political or other bias is ascribed to a person or the persons whose names are placed in the box.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The first ground is that the names of persons placed in the jury box from -which the grand jury was taken were not placed therein by H. H. King, clerk of this court, And the jury commissioner, but that, H. H. King being accessible, and in no wise disabled or disqualified, the names were placed in the box by the jury commissioner and a ■deputy clerk by the handfuls or bunches, and that they should be placed therein alternately by the said clerk and by the said commis■sioner, and that this tended to the injury and .prejudice of these defendants.””
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.