Farnsworth v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
232 F.2d 59 · 1956
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently October 1994 · most notably United States of America Ex Rel. John McGrath v. J. E. Lavallee, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York (1963), United States v. Cariola (1963)
45 federal appellate · 9 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Johnson v. Zerbst · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · United State v. Morgan · Patton 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a defendant without good reason waits a long time before asserting his claimed right, with the consequence that many witnesses are dead, he might have difficulty maintaining his burden of proof, or a heavier burden of proof might be imposed upon him.... But where the fundamental constitutional right has been denied, an accused should not be precluded from relief because he cannot satisfy a court that he had good cause for any delay in seeking it. " To permit a defense of laches to the writ would, in effect, denude it of one of its essential characteristicsthe power to hurdle a time factor." Haywood v. United States, D.C.S.D.N.Y., 127 F.Supp. 485, 488 [emphasis added].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where it cannot be deduced from the record whether counsel was properly waived, we think, no other remedy being then available and sound reasons existing for failure to seek appropriate earlier relief, this motion in the nature of the extraordinary writ of coram nobis must be heard by the federal trial court.” 3”
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.