Killilea v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
287 F.2d 212 · 1961
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably United States v. Spock (1969), In re Union Leader Corp. (1961)
15 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
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. § 659
Relies on Green v. United States · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Wade v. Hunter · Patton v. United States · Swift Company 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that if the juror should deny communication with the other jurors it would have to feel that such denial was prompted by a desire to protect himself, since inquiry of the juror would indicate that 'he had been disobeying my mandate' and 'obviously he is going to rush to his own defense.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“stated that she had . . . heard many of the matters which transpired during the jury's absence, and, in general, had discussed these matters with her husband. She also stated that she had told her husband what she thought of the testimony and of the witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It was common agreement that, throughout the trial, many significant matters which the jury should not have heard had taken place in open court with the jury excluded, but within the hearing of spectators.”
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.