United States v. Kyle’s Empirical Analysis
257 F.2d 559 · 1958
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Pelletier v. Zweifel (1991), Isaacs v. United States (1962)
43 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 371
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Screws v. United States · Durland v. United States · Sweet v. United States · Crawford 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What defendants now characterize as ‘inflammatory and personal vituperation’ and a ‘heated appeal to passion’ by the prosecutor on sum-' mation apparently failed to stir ei ther of them or their counsel at the time of the utterances into voicing an objection or a request for a direction from the court. Rule 51, Fed.R.Cr.P., 18 U.S.C.A.” (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence of his intent by direct testimony on his part as to his belief and motive was material; such evidence if believed by the jury might tend to repel the inferences of fraudulent intent revealed by his activities.”
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.