Pollock v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
202 F.2d 281 · 1953
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Colton v. United States (1962), Garner v. Wolfinbarger (1970)
73 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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. § 3481 · 20 U.S.C. § 41 (National Museum Act of 1966) · 26 U.S.C. § 145 · 26 U.S.C. § 41 · 26 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on McNabb v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · Clark v. United States · United States v. Trenton Potteries Co. · On Lee 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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * However, within the six year period, a complaint had been instituted before a United States Commissioner, a warrant issued thereon and the appellant arrested. The indictment was returned before the discharge of the grand jury at its next session within that district. It appears to us, therefore, that Count 1 was not barred by the statute of limitations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]ore important, where the party is being tried for a crime in furtherance of which the communication to the attorney was made and evidence has been introduced giving color to the charge, it is well settled that the communication is no longer privileged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Congress has not given the states the power of prescribing the rules of evidence in trials for offenses against the United States. In criminal cases in the federal courts, the admissibility of evidence and the competency and the privileges of witnesses are governed, except when an act of Congress or the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure otherwise provide, by the principles of the common law as interpreted by the courts of the United States in the light of reason and experience. Rule 26, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure; On Lee v. United States, 343 U.S. 747 , 754, 755, 72 S.Ct. 967 , 96 L.Ed. 1270 ; McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332 , 341, 63 S.Ct. 608 , 87 L.Ed. 819 ; Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 , 468, 469, 48 S.Ct. 564 , 72 L.Ed. 944 .” Pollock v. United States, 5 Cir., 1953, 202 F.2d 281 , 285.”
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.