Offutt v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
208 F.2d 842 · 1953
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1987
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Rosenfeld 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contumacious and unethical conduct in open court during the trial,”
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.