Gordon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 896 · 1949
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Mesarosh v. United States (1956), United States v. Chambers (1991)
60 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2311 (Anti Car Theft Act of 1992)
Relies on Larrison v. United States · People v. . Shilitano · Gordon v. United States · Gordon 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. The district court in Gordon had denied the defendant's new trial motion based on the first factor of the Larrison test: that the court be reasonably well satisfied that the testimony given by the witness at trial was false. This circuit, noting the witness's history of crime and perjury, held that the district court's decision was not”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the instant case, the first and primary ground, above set forth, for granting a new trial is lacking. The district court was not reasonably well satisfied that the testimony given by Banning on the trial was false. On the contrary, the court believed Banning’s statements in his affidavits recanting his testimony on the trial were false. Under the circumstances, this was not an unreasonable conclusion.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * If the District Judge, on the basis of the whole record of the original trial and the matters presented on the hearing of the motion, believes the statements in the affidavit of recantation to be false and is not reasonably well satisfied that the testimony given by the witness on the trial was false, the decision is for him to reach for he is ‘not at liberty to shift upon the shoulders of another party his own responsibility, but [is] charged with the responsibility to seek the truth himself * *”
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.