Sinclair v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 263 · 1929
Citation profile
846 federal appellate · 50 district · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,229 later decisions (92 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Estelle v. Williams (1976), United States v. Gaudin (1995)
846 federal appellate · 50 district · 118 state decisions — followed in 21 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Abrams v. United States · Armour Packing Company v. United States · Kilbourn v. Thompson
Cited together with McGrain v. Daugherty · Lawn v. United States · United States v. Rumely · Quinn v. United States · Glasser 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 1,229 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he materiality of what is falsely sworn, when an element in the crime of perjury, is one for the court.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“pertinent to the question under inquiry.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The gist of the offense is refusal to answer pertinent questions. No moral turpitude is involved. Intentional violation is sufficient to constitute guilt. There was no misapprehension as to what was called for. The refusal to answer was deliberate. The facts sought were pertinent as a matter of law, and section 102 made it appellant's duty to answer. He was bound rightly to construe the statute. His mistaken view of the law is no defense."”
2 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.