Bateman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
212 F.2d 61 · 1954
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2005 · most notably Shotwell Manufacturing Company v. United States (1963), United States v. Haldeman (1976)
65 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 145
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Estate of Hauptfuhrer v. Commissioner · Remmer 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As often occurs counsel has singled out one instruction in claiming error without regard to the instructions considered as a whole. The instructions on intent, given by the Court, correctly stated the law, were plain and understandable and left no room for doubt in the minds of the jurors. * * * “It is apparent that the jury was fully instructed that if appellants acted in good faith they should be acquitted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘the law presumes that every man intends the natural and probable consequences of his own voluntary acts,’ ””
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.