Fletcher v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
158 F.2d 321 · 1946
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably 44 Cal. 3d 543 - People v. Hovey (1988), United States v. Leonard (1974)
87 federal appellate · 22 state decisions — followed in 10 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 District of Columbia v. Clawans · Egan v. United States · Freed v. United States · Lett v. United States · Allen v. Allen
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule in this jurisdiction for a quarter of a century has been to require that a jury be warned in the case of evidence given by a detective engaged in the business of spying for hire. The duty is more impelling where, as here, there is not a jot or tittle of other evidence and the criminal record of the witness shown.” is”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“... An informer’s testimony should be examined by you with greater care than the testimony of an ordinary witness. You should scrutinize it closely .... You should [receive such testimony with suspicion and] act upon such testimony with caution....”
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.