Arena v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
226 F.2d 227 · 1955
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably United States v. Foster (1983), United States v. Baxter (1973)
79 federal appellate · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 28 U.S.C. § 1732
Relies on Opper v. United States · Weiler v. United States · S. S. W., Inc. v. Air Transport Ass'n of America · Burlington County Bridge Commission v. Driscoll · Warszower 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One requested instruction contains the statement that the corroborating evidence must be 'inconsistent with the innocence of the defendant’. We have already seen that the weight of authority is opposed to so severe a standard for the corroborating evidence. It is sufficient if the corroborating evidence tends to establish the defendant’s guilt, and if such evidence together with the direct evidence is ‘inconsistent with the innocence of the defendant’.” (emphasis in original)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““■* * * that circumstances, without any witness, when they exist in documentary or written testimony, may combine to establish the charge of perjury; as they may combine, altogether unaided by oral proof, except the proof of their authenticity, to prove any other fact connected with the declarations of persons, or business of human life. That principle is, that circumstances necessarily make up a part of the proofs of human transactions; that such as have been reduced to writing in unequivocal terms, when the writing has been proved to be authentic, cannot be made more certain by evidence aliunde; * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) In any court of the United States and in any court established by Act of Congress, any writing or record whether in the form of an entry in a book or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence, or event, shall be admissible as evidence of such act, transaction, occurrence, or event, if made in regular course of any business, and if it was the regular course of such business to make such memorandum or record at the time of such act, transaction, occurrence, or event or within a reasonable time thereafter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Re
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.