Funk v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1997
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Starr v. United States · Winston v. United States · State v. Duncan · State v. Jackson · Revel v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We see nothing in the Act of Congress as interpreted which holds to any other reasonable conclusion than that the necessary test of the qualification of jurors in a trial of murder is that they shall have no bias in favor of or against either form of punishment. They should stand indifferent between the government and the accused on this as in all other questions involved in the case. All that can reasonably be demanded by either the government or the accused is that they come to this question after the ascertainment of guilt in this impartial state of mind prepared to exercise clemency or not, according to their own judgments, and consciences, unaided by the advice of the court, and guided only by the sense of their solemn responsibility, which is the performance of their full duty to the Government as well as to the accused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Had this been the purpose [i.e., to show the defendant's bad character], the admission of the evidence would have been error.... If the evidence was admissible for the purpose claimed by the Government, [i.e., to show flight,] it can not matter that incidentally it may have injuriously affected the character of the defendant with the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defendant could have asked a special direction or instruction to the jury limiting its consideration to the purpose of admission strictly.”
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.