Roberson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
237 F.2d 536 · 1956
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 1976 · most notably Tillman v. United States (1969), United States v. Cardillo (1963)
35 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2313
Relies on Michelson v. United States · McNally v. Hill · Rosen v. United States · Dunbar v. United States · Bartell 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the whole inquiry ... is calculated to ascertain the general talk of people about defendant, rather than the witness' own knowledge of him, the form of inquiry, ‘Have you heard?’ has general approval, and ‘Do you know?’ is not allowed.” Michelson, supra, 335 U.S. at 482 , 69 S.Ct. at 221 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The indictment or the inforaiation shall be a plain, concise and definite written statement of the essential facts constituting the offense charged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rua v. United States
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.