Dearing v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.2d 310 · 1948
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1976
8 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 · Wickard v. Filburn · United States v. Murdock · United States v. Illinois Central Railroad · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Goodrich Transit Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proffered testimony touching the question of willfulness would have tended to generate a reasonable doubt of the appellant's guilt, and it was therefore error to exclude it.”
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.