Perry v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
195 F.2d 37 · 1952
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently February 1983 · most notably Gunther v. United States (1954), Poole v. United States (1957)
66 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2114 · 18 U.S.C. § 4244
Relies on Davis v. United States · Tatum v. United States · Park Hill Realty Co. v. Lykins · Acker v. Herfurth
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Your Honor, we would like to have a psychiatrist appointed for Perry. My record shows the case was set for the 22nd of June. I had Perry up here. His father wanted to testify as to the boy’s mentality. He has been in the asylum. I have the record from the asylum here. I think Your Honor would like to see that.” 195 F.2d at p. 38.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“« -x- * * may. ke presently insane or otherwise so mentally incompetent as to be unable to understand the proceedings against him or properly to assist in his own defense •fc ””
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.