Ashley v. Pescor’s Empirical Analysis
147 F.2d 318 · 1945
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 1976 · most notably Bishop v. United States (1955), Whalem v. United States (1965)
40 federal appellate · 5 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Hilton v. Guyot · United States v. Throckmorton · Glasgow v. Moyer · Chaloner v. Sherman
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant having been convicted on a verdict of guilty of the offense charged in the indictment * * * to wit: “1. Assault upon government officer on government property, to-wit: U. S. Hospital No. 90, on March 16, 1945, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, and the defendant having been now asked whether he has anything to say why judgment should not be pronounced against him, and no sufficient cause to the contrary being shown or appearing to the Court, “It is by the Court ordered and adjudged that the defendant, having been found guilty of said offenses, is hereby committed to the custody of the Attorney General or his authorized representative for imprisonment for the period of Five Years * * * or until said defendant is otherwise discharged as provided by law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Byrd v. Pescor
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.