Bradford v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
271 F.2d 58 · 1959
Citation profile
32 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1975 · most notably United States v. Bishton (1972), United States v. Clancy (1960)
32 federal appellate ·
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. § 3500
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · Jencks v. United States · Palermo v. United States · Hem v. United States · Rosenberg 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the defendant’s contention had been that he had had possession of the heroin, but had not known that it was unlawfully imported, * * * then the instructions of the Court that ‘there is no explanation in the United States for the possession of heroin’ would have been clearly prejudicial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is such a thing as harmless error and this clearly was such.””
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.