Marsh v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
29 F.2d 172 · 1928
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Elkins v. United States (1960), Davis v. United States (1946)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Agnello v. United States · Marron v. United States · Logan v. United States · Gambino 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A peace officer may, without a warrant, arrest a person: * * * * * * “(d) When he has reasonable ground to believe that a felony has been or is being committed and reasonable ground to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing it.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“as valid a command within the borders of [the state] as one of [the state's] own statutes,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“may be . . . limited by the law of the state where the offender may be,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.