Barton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
263 F.2d 894 · 1959
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2009 · most notably Bruton v. United States (1968), Parker v. Randolph (1979)
56 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 4
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Moore v. Dempsey · Schaffer 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Government relies upon the familiar principle that, under Rule 14, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the district court has a discretion to grant or deny a severance of defendants, and that its ruling is subject to review only for abuse of discretion. “We have quoted the main body of Barton’s statement in footnote 2, supra. It accused Mitchell of being the instigator or of acting with Barton in every detail of the commission of each offense. It would be impossible to eliminate from the statement the parts prejudicial to Mitchell and no such attempt was made. The sole reliance for Mitchell’s protection was the court’s instruction to the jury, several times repeated, not to treat the statement as evidence against Mitchell. Considering the substance and terms of Barton’s statement, we doubt whether it was at all possible to carry out that instruction. To do so certainly would require twelve minds more perfectly disciplined than those of the average human jurors. “Unlesss that admonition was effective, then Mitchell has been deprived of his constitutional right to be confronted with the witnesses against him, for he has been afforded no opportunity to cross-examine Barton as to the truthfulness of his many accusatory statements. “A few of the States grant a right of separate trial to every defendant in a criminal case, and several other States have liberal rules for the granting of severance in order to assure a fair trial to each defendant. The federal courts retain the ”
4 later decisions 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.