Pearson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
192 F.2d 681 · 1951
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably Wilson v. United States (1957), Barfield v. United States (1956)
81 federal appellate · 6 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 Wilson v. United States · National Safe Deposit Co. v. Stead · Simon v. United States · United States v. Sherman · Glover 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who with knowledge of the commission of a crime assists in its execution may not escape the penalty merely because another is the dominating or controlling actor”
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.