Barkman v. Sanford’s Empirical Analysis
162 F.2d 592 · 1947
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013 · most notably Branzburg v. Hayes (1972), Smith v. United States (1959)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Patton v. United States · Diaz v. United States · Powers v. United States · Trono 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(c)---the rule---was approved and projected by the (U. S.) Supreme Court under purported authorization by Congress; “(d)---Congress reserved the power to veto the rule but failed to do so, thereby according to it the sanctity of legislative acquiescence and rendering it appropriate that we consider it as a legislative enactment of the usual pattern, carrying with it the shield of presumptive validity. “The fact that the rule was approved and proposed by the (U. S.) Supreme Court, also supplies it with an armor of great, but not complete, invinci bility. The fact that a rule was promulgated by the (U. S.) Supreme Court does not raise it above the Constitution, nevertheless, the source of the rule is such as to suggest strongly that all who enter into its forum of controversy should tread lightly even though we consider it merely as a congressional enactment---” Barkman v. Sanford (1947), 162 Fed. (2nd) 592, certiorari denied, 332 U. S. 816 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tuttle v. State
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.