United States v. Augustine’s Empirical Analysis
189 F.2d 587 · 1951
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 1971 · most notably Cephus v. United States (1963), United States v. Tomaiolo (1957)
28 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Alford v. United States · Lehigh Valley Railroad Company v. Royal Indemnity Company and Others · Gleckman v. United States · Oklahoma v. Texas · United States v. 5 Cases, More or Less
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The credibility of a witness is of course a proper subject of cross-examination. But there are limits to the extent of the excursions to be allowed on such a voyage of discovery and a trial judge must have considerable discretion in setting them.””
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.