United States v. Postma’s Empirical Analysis
242 F.2d 488 · 1957
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably United States v. Agueci (1962), United States v. Stromberg (1959)
56 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Pereira v. United States · Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners · Williams v. United States · United States v. Calderon · Heike 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The motion was denied and rightly so, we hold. Prejudice was no more likely than in other cases of conspiracy. United States v. Varlack [2 Cir., 225 F.2d 665 ], supra; Robinson v. United States, 93 U.S.App.D.C. 347 , 210 F.2d 29 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is well established that exclusion of witnesses is a matter for the sound discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“conspiring * * * to obstruct, delay and affect interstate commerce * * * by extortion”
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.