United States v. Orman’s Empirical Analysis
207 F.2d 148 · 1953
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Watkins v. United States (1957), Yates v. United States (1957)
32 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 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 Berger v. United States · Boyd v. United States · Hagner v. United States · Sinclair v. United States · United States v. Rumely
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * But where the separate questions seek to establish but a single fact, or relate to but a single subject of inquiry, only one penalty for contempt may be imposed. * * * Where the witness has refused to give any testimony, a committee cannot multiply his contempt by continuing to ask him questions each time eliciting the same answer.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Pertinent,’ as used to describe a requisite for valid congressional inquiry, means ‘pertinent to a subject matter properly under inquiry, not generally pertinent to the person under interrogation.’ * * * United States v. Rumely, 345 U.S. 41 , 73 S.Ct. 543 , 97 L.Ed. 770 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.