United States v. Tatcher’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.2d 1002 · 1942
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1984 · most notably United States v. Turner (1984), Yoffe v. United States (1946)
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 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
Relies on Patton v. United States · 142 Pa. Super. 327 - Commonwealth v. Marino · United States v. Montgomery · United States v. Russo · Arine 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to justify a conviction of crime on circumstantial evidence it is necessary that the directly proven circumstances be such as to exclude every reasonable hypothesis but that of guilt.”
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.