Ray v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.2d 508 · 1940
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1970 · most notably Logsdon v. United States (1958), United States v. Hoffa (1966)
24 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 264
Relies on Fillippon v. Albion Vein Slate Co. · United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · Little v. United States · Dodge v. United States · Ah Fook Chang 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Private communications, even though harmless in themselves, may open the way to abuses and may destroy confidence in legal procedure and the judiciary. Therefore, it is improper for the judge to hold any important communication with the jury concerning the case unless openly and with opportunity to the accused to be present and to object and to take exceptions.”
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.