Quercia v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 466 · 1933
Citation profile
1,621 federal appellate · 61 district · 263 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,376 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Glasser v. United States (1942), United States v. Young (1985)
1,621 federal appellate · 61 district · 263 state decisions — followed in 31 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
reviewedQuercia v. United States (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Patton v. United States · Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · Slocum v. New York Life Insurance · Capital Traction Co. v. Hof
Cited together with Glasser v. United States · Starr v. United States · United States v. Murdock · Chapman v. State of California · Berger 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 2,376 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“his lightest word or intimation is received with deference, and may prove controlling.”
75 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a trial by jury in a federal court, the judge is not a mere moderator, but is the governor of the trial for the purpose of assuring its proper conduct and of determining questions of law.”
71 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“And noiv I am going to tell you what I think of the defendant’s testimony. You may have noticed, Mr. Foreman and gentlemen, that he wiped his hands during his testimony. It is rather a curious thing, but that is almost always an indication of lying. Why it should be so we don’t know, but that is the fact. I think that every single word that man said, except when he agreed with the Government’s testimony, was a lie. Now, that opinion is an opinion of evidence and is not binding on you, and if you don’t agree with it, it is your duty to find him not guilty.”
9 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.