15 App. D.C. 446 - Falk v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Illinois v. Allen (1970), Diaz v. United States (1912)
13 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Reynolds v. States · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Lewis v. United States · Ball v. United States · Schwab v. Berggren
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It does not seem to us to be consonant with the dictates of common sense that an accused person . . . should be at liberty, whenever he pleased, to break up a trial already commenced. The practical result of such a proposition, if allowed to be law, would be to prevent any trial whatever until the accused person himself should be pleased to permit it. This would be a travesty of justice which could not be tolerated . . [W]e do not think that any rule of law or constitutional principle leads us to any conclusion that would be so disastrous as well to the administration of justice as to the true interests of civil liberty.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`allow a person to take advantage of his own wrong. And this would be precisely what it would do if it permitted an escape from prison, or an absconding from the jurisdiction while at large on bail, during the pendency of a trial before a jury, to operate as a shield.'”
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.