Yates v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
227 F.2d 844 · 1955
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1985 · most notably United States v. Wilson (1975), Yates v. United States (1957)
24 federal appellate · 7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from California Eastern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2385
Relies on United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Offutt v. United States · In re Nevitt · Parker 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)f the witness were ordered to testify or wished to testify, there is no body before which the testimony could be received.”
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.