United States v. Quick’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.2d 832 · 1942
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably United States v. Antonelli Fireworks Co. (1946), Finnegan v. United States (1953)
30 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Edgington v. United States · Egan v. United States · Nash v. United States · Kinard v. United States · Sunderland 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is the right of a person charged with crime to have all relevant testimony, including that relating to his good character or reputation, considered by the jury in every case, and if, on such consideration, there exists reasonable doubt of his guilt, even though that doubt be engendered merely by his previous good repute, he is entitled to an acquittal." [ Id. at 835 ].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'You may consider the character witnesses, what the weight and effect of their testimony is to be, what you want to give it.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It must be considered with all of the other evidence and weighed with that.' " 25 (Emphasis in original.) 26 The court, considering these instructions confusing and prejudicial, held that a charge on character evidence should include the purpose, probative status and possible effect of such evidence. That is, the district court should have explained to the jury that the defendant introduced character evidence to generate a reasonable doubt, that the jury should consider the character evidence without regard to the strength or weakness of the other evidence, and that, if the character evidence raised a reasonable doubt as to the defendant's guilt, the jury should return a verdict of not guilty. Id. at 379-80. The court concluded: 27 "A charge on reputation evidence must meet the requirements thus set forth and the defendant who adduces such evidence is entitled to have it considered, if believed, along with all the other evidence in the case until the jury is convinced of his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, no matter how convincing the other evidence may appear to be. That, we assume, is the purport of the statement in the Edgington case ' * * * although, without it, the other evidence would be convincing.' It logically follows that if all the evidence, including the reputation evidence, convinces the jury beyond a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt, the inquiry is at an end.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.