Massei v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
241 F.2d 895 · 1957
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2019
8 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 145
Relies on Holland v. United States · Smith v. United States · United States v. Johnson · United States v. Calderon · Ex Parte Barber
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fact that [the defendant] was proved to have been a police officer as stated in his admissions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the practical relation of the statement to the Government's case which is crucial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not its theoretical relation to the definition of the offense.”
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.