Daniel v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
268 F.2d 849 · 1959
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1981 · most notably United States v. Armedo-Sarmiento (1976), United States v. McCracken (1974)
56 federal appellate · 2 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. § 6
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Rochin v. People of California · Weeks v. United States · Holt v. United States · Breithaupt v. Abram
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that the great genius of the jury system is the human experi ence which only a jury can bring to bear on the essentially human problems which a jury is required to decide. Perhaps some judges are capable of purely intellectual judgments. Jurors, being human, cannot disassociate their experience from their judgments. 7”
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.