Harlow v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
301 F.2d 361 · 1962
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 5 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2016 · most notably United States v. Marion (1971), Harrison v. United States (1968)
97 federal appellate · 5 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 202 · 18 U.S.C. § 3238 · 18 U.S.C. § 3282 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 4
Relies on Nardone v. United States · Bartkus v. People of State of Illinois · Abbate v. United States · United States v. Bayer · Morgan v. Devine
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . From that time until the trial, a period of about one year, the appellants made various discovery motions. This later delay, therefore, resulted from their own actions, and they cannot now complain that it was unnecessary and unreasonable . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The investigating agents were not forever precluded from interrogating McLane and pressing him to confess merely because they thereafter illegally seized other evidence tending to implicate McLane in the bribery scheme.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“persons acting for or on behalf of the United States . . . in any official function”
1 later decision 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.