Clark v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 1 · 1933
Citation profile
552 federal appellate · 137 district · 419 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,637 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Nixon (1974), Maine v. Moulton (1985)
552 federal appellate · 137 district · 419 state decisions — followed in 38 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
reviewedClark v. United States (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mattox v. United States · McDonald v. Pless · Savin · United States v. Shipp
Cited together with Upjohn Company v. United States · United States v. Zolin · Fisher v. United States · Hickman v. Taylor · Ex parte Hudgings
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 1,637 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The privilege takes flight if the relation is abused.”
60 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Zolin · Impounded“Freedom of debate might be stifled and independence of thought checked if jurors were made to feel that their arguments and ballots were to be freely published to the world ... No doubt the need is weighty that conduct in the jury room shall be untrammeled by the fear of embarrassing publicity.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'thwart the process of inquiry, and to turn a trial [here, a Grand Jury investigation] into a futile form.'”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Michael · Conaway v. Polk
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.