Sellers v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
271 F.2d 475 · 1959
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably State v. Manley (1969), Brown v. United States (1964)
67 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Aldridge v. United States · Skibs v. Otis McAlLister & Co. · Fredrick v. United States · Chavez 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inclined to give more weight to the testimony of a police officer merely because he is a police officer”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant cannot be fairly tried by a juror who would be inclined to give unqualified credence to a law enforcement officer simply because he is an officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. State“subject to the essential demands of fairness.”
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.