Roberson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
249 F.2d 737 · 1957
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably United States v. Cole (1985), United States v. James (1975)
114 federal appellate · 7 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. § 1 · 18 U.S.C. § 2313 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · McNabb v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · Jordan v. De George · Wong Tai 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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the purpose of discrediting a witness in a Federal criminal trial it is not improper to show that the witness, including a defendant who has elected to testify, has been convictéd of a felony or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A juror is not per se disqualified because he is acquainted with or a friend of counsel in a case, whether advocating the cause of a private litigant or prosecuting in a criminal case.”
1 later decision 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.