Palakiko v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
209 F.2d 75 · 1953
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings Against Harriet Bouslog Sawyer (1959), 60 Cal. 2d 554 - In Re Imbler (1963)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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. § 10 · 28 U.S.C. § 1293
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Brown v. Allen · McNabb v. United States · Mattox 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is of the essence of appellate review that the court to which the appeal is taken give due respect to the primary function of the trial court in finding and determining the facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Teets“Discrepancies * * * are commonplace in any trial. Discrepancies are more likely to appear in the record of the testimony of the candid witness than in that of an astute perjurer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gong v. Brownell“unfair to require that one who deliberately goes perilously close to an area of proscribed conduct shall take the risk that he may cross the line.”
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.