United States v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
198 F.2d 726 · 1952
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably Green v. United States (1958), State v. Piskorski (1979)
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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. § 2385 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 401 · 18 U.S.C. § 402
Relies on Dennis v. United States · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Sacher v. United States · Johnson v. Stevenson · Pettibone 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However heavy the evidential burden-on the prosecution here, it can hardly beheld more exacting than the ‘proof beyond a reasonable doubt’ of an ordinary criminal case before a jury. We have been often pressed, but have consistently refused, to apply this formula to each link in the chain of alleged events in order that if as to any the proof is not thus overwhelming there must be a reversal of a verdict of guilt. Instead we have said that the process of drawing inferences is to be governed, as ordinarily, by human experience, that indeed no other rule of jury fact finding has a claim to reality, and that the strict requirement as to burden of proof constitutes an overall admonition or warning, rather than a precise yardstick to be applied to each isolable segment of the proof, (citing cases)””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 401 of 18 U.S.C.A. provides that “A court of the United States shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority, and none other, as— ****** “(3) disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“defines the acts toward which it may be directed”
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.