United States v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 619 · 1930
Citation profile
182 federal appellate · 6 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 378 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Stirone v. United States (1960), Russell v. United States (1962)
182 federal appellate · 6 district · 86 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedNorris v. United States (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bain Jr · Hudson v. United States · Hallinger v. Davis · People Ex Rel. Hubert v. . Kaiser
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 378 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled law that 'nothing can be added to an indictment without the concurrence of the grand jury by which the bill was found.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court was no longer concerned with the question of guilt, but only with the character and extent of the punishment (citing authority). The remedy of the accused, if he thought he had not violated the law, was to withdraw, by leave of court, the plea of nolo contendere, enter one of not guilty, and, upon the issue thus made, submit the facts for determination in the usual and orderly way.”
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.