Stephens v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
289 F.2d 308 · 1961
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Selva (1977), Strauss v. United States (1963)
45 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. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 28 U.S.C. § 753
Relies on Bruno v. United States · Poole v. United States · Stansbury 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the failure of the court reporter to observe the terms of the statute is undisputed and the result is that a- full transcript is not available to • us, we do not see how we can, under Rule 52(a), F.R.Cr.P., 18 U.S.C.A., adjudicate that there was no showing that any errors which might have been reflected by the transcript were harmless. This conclusion seems to be in line with whatever jurisprudence is available on the subject.””
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.