United States v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
211 F.2d 656 · 1954
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1979 · most notably Shotwell Manufacturing Company v. United States (1963), Williamson v. United States (1962)
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Kotteakos v. United States · McNabb v. United States · Byars v. United States · Upshaw v. United States · Anderson 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ - * * of the same or similar character or are based on the same act or transaction or on two or more-acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a. common scheme or plan.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““There was a working arrangement between the federal officers and the sheriff of Polk County which made possible the abuses revealed by this record,” [repeated and insistent questioning by federal officers over a five or six day period resulting in confessions to them when the aceuseds were held without a warrant by state officers in the “hostile atmosphere of a small company-dominated mining town”].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The court may order two or more indictments or informations or both to be tried together if the offenses, and the defendants if there is more than one, could have been joined in a single indictment or information. The procedure shall be the same as if the prosecution were under such single indictment or information.””
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.