Tilghman v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.2d 661 · 1948
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Taylor v. United States (1956), Francis J. Curran, Francis J. Maguire and Ira F. Jones, Jr. v. State of Delaware (1958)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Mooney v. Holohan · Picking v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Wagner v. Hunter · Moses v. Hudspeth · Bell 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Taking petitioner’s own testimony at par, the most that can be said for it is that it shows that some of the witnesses gave false testimony. But even if this be true, it does not void the judgment. The vice which will vitiate the judgment of a court is the knowing, wilful and intentional use of perjured testimony in a trial to secure a conviction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burks v. Egeler
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.