Pullen v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
164 F.2d 756 · 1947
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 1993 · most notably United States v. Reese (1993), United States v. Fischetti (1971)
25 federal appellate · 1 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 Screws v. United States · United States v. Classic · Spurr v. United States · Norris v. United States · Grimsley 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The implication seems to be evident in the Screws case that the statute did not intend to make one a criminal if ‘his purpose was unrelated to the disregard of any constitutional guarantee.’ ... It must be kept in mind that every beating by a state officer no matter how willfully administered, is not a deprivation of a federal right as condemned by [§ 242].” Pullen v. United States, 164 F.2d 756 (5th Cir. 1947).”
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.