Rossi v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 89 · 1933
Citation profile
122 federal appellate · 6 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Holland v. United States (1955), Leary v. United States (1969)
122 federal appellate · 6 district · 31 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Wilson v. United States · Hem v. United States · Mobile Jackson Kansas City Railroad Company v. J a Turnipseed · Dunlop 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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general principle, and we think the correct one, underlying the foregoing decisions, is that it is not incumbent on the prosecution to adduce positive evidence to support a negative averment the truth of which is fairly indicated by established circumstances and which, if untrue, could be readily disproved by the production of documents or other evidence probably with in the defendant’s possession or control.””
6 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.