Herman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
220 F.2d 219 · 1955
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Trammel v. United States (1980), United States v. Allery (1975)
20 federal appellate · 1 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 Smith v. United States · Funk v. United States · Lovely v. United States · Bell v. United States · Shores 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was entirely within his right in commenting upon the fact that the evidence of the Government was undisputed, since he did not comment on the failure of the defendant to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Newell v. Slayton
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.