United States v. Grayson’s Empirical Analysis
166 F.2d 863 · 1948
Citation profile
92 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2009 · most notably Jencks v. United States (1957), 23 Cal. 3d 208 - People v. Bolton (1979)
92 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 11 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Bollenbach v. United States · Durland v. United States · Bruno v. United States · Weiler 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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was part of their regular course of business to report to him what the declarants themselves knew, as it was part of his business to record what they said.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arouse suspicion that the accused is a person who has found it useful or necessary to conceal his identity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`multiple hearsay' is no more competent now than single hearsay was before.”
2 later decisions 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.