United States v. Sherman’s Empirical Analysis
200 F.2d 880 · 1952
Citation profile
233 federal appellate · 3 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 300 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably United States v. Russell (1973), Sherman v. United States (1958)
233 federal appellate · 3 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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. § 3
Relies on Screws v. United States · Sorrells v. United States · United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United States Bay Counties Dist Council of Carpenters · United States v. Coplon
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 300 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) did the agent induce the accused to commit the offence charged in the indictment; (2) if so, was the accused ready and willing without persuasion and was he awaiting any propitious opportunity to commit the offence.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“soliciting, proposing, initiating, broaching or suggesting the commission of the offense charged.”
4 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.