Gordon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
164 F.2d 855 · 1947
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Herman v. United States (1961), Matthews v. United States (1969)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Glasser v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · Palmer v. Hoffman · Bollenbach v. United States · Ponzi v. Fessenden
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The substantive crime charged in the indictment was the transportation from Detroit, Michigan, to Chicago, Illinois, on September 13, 1940, of jewelry stolen from Walter Ollendorff at the Book-Cadillac Hotel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the conviction was based principally upon the testimony of Herman Frank Banning, a co-defendant under the indictment”
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.