James v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
238 F.2d 681 · 1956
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 1989 · most notably United States v. Jeffers (1976), Hagans v. State (1989)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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. § 2
Relies on Smith v. State · Giles v. United States · Carrier v. State · Haynes v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e are not disposed to hold that the included offense rule is meant to apply where the claimed `lesser' or included offense prescribes a greater minimum punishment than the so-called `greater' or including offense.”
3 later decisions 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.