Putty v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
220 F.2d 473 · 1955
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1987
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 48 U.S.C. § 1424
Relies on Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Beazell v. State of Ohio Chatfield · Ex parte McCardle · United States v. Lovett · Ex parte Garland
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘No conviction of a defendant in a criminal proceeding in the District Court of Guam heretofore had shall be reversed or set aside on the ground that the defendant was not indicted by a grand jury or tried by a petit jury.’ ” 48 U.S.C.A. § 1424 note.”
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.