Samples v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.2d 263 · 1941
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably United States v. Cintolo (1987), United States v. Partin (1977)
49 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Russell · Pink Franklin v. State of South Carolina · Outlaw v. United States · Walker 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute is broad enough to cover any act, .committed corruptly, in an endeavor to impede or obstruct the due administration of justice.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““or corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“miscarriage[s] of justice by corrupt methods.”
2 later decisions 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.