Olender v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
210 F.2d 795 · 1954
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably Couch v. United States (1973), United States v. Kovel (1961)
105 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 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 26 U.S.C. § 145 · 28 U.S.C. § 1733
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Funk v. United States · United States v. International Harvester Co. · Evanston v. Gunn · Bell 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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the facts stated in the document * * * [were] within the personal knowledge and observation of the recording official or his subordinates.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All documents prepared by public officials pursuant to a duty imposed by law or required by the nature of their offices are admissible as proof of the facts stated therein. * * * The reason [for] the rule is that it would be burdensome and inconvenient to call public officials to appear in the myriad cases in which their testimony might be required in a court of law, and that records and reports prepared by such officials in the course of their duties are generally trustworthy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to simply prepare a federal income tax return”
2 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.