Harper v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
239 F.2d 945 · 1956
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably Bradley v. United States (1969), Hansford v. United States (1962)
66 federal appellate · 28 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 People v. . Molineux · Security National Life Insurance v. Washington · Burge 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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he rule is that evidence of other offenses is admissible when substantially revelant to the offense charged; inadmissible when its relevance is insignificant; and, in borderline cases, admissible when its relevance outweighs the undue prejudice that may flow from ⅜ ⅜ ⅝”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The general rule is that upon the trial of an accused person the prosecution may not introduce evidence of another offense wholly independent of the one charged. However, there are many well established exceptions to this rule, so numerous that it has been said that it is difficult to determine which is the more extensive, the doctrine or the acknowledged exceptions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such a statement of the law in terms of a general rule and specific exceptions is convenient.”
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.