Roberts v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
239 F.2d 467 · 1956
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 1998 · most notably United States v. Knohl (1967), Cohen v. United States (1962)
17 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. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 3282
Relies on Alford v. United States · Catrino v. United States · United States v. Obermeier · United States v. Kurzenknabe
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any corrupt endeavor to influence any party or witness, whether successful or not, constitutes obstruction of justice prohibited by said section. See Catrino v. United States, 9 Cir., 1949, 176 F.2d 884 . The obstruction of justice statute is broad enough to cover the attempted corruption of a prospective witness in a civil action in a Federal District Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“concern ... for the comfort and well being of the jury, as well as a desire, reasonably expressed, of a busy court to get on with the litigation before it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.