United States v. Maybury’s Empirical Analysis
274 F.2d 899 · 1960
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 4 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. Powell (1984), Washington v. Recuenco (2006)
86 federal appellate · 4 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 24 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 495
Relies on Green v. United States · Costello v. United States · Dunn v. United States · Ball v. United States · United States v. Dotterweich
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(it) would enhance respect for the law or for the courts by recognizing for a judge the same right to indulge in 'vagaries' in the disposition of criminal charges that, for historic reasons, had been granted the jury.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The most that can be said in such cases is that the verdict shows that either in the acquittal or the conviction the jury did not speak their real conclusions, but that does not show that they were not convinced of the defendant’s guilt. We interpret the acquittal as no more than their assumption of a power which they had no right to exercise, but to which they were disposed through lenity.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The vogue for repetitious multiple count indictments may well produce an increase in seemingly inconsistent jury verdicts, where in fact the jury is using its power to prevent the punishment from getting too far out of line with the crime.”
5 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.