Berman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
302 U.S. 211 · 1937
Citation profile
793 federal appellate · 33 district · 224 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,342 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Brady v. State of Maryland (1963), United States v. DiFrancesco (1980)
793 federal appellate · 33 district · 224 state decisions — followed in 36 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
reviewedUnited States v. Berman (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Burns v. United States · Escoe v. Zerbst · Hill v. United States ex rel. Wampler · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad v. Southern Express Co.
Cited together with Parr v. United States · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Cobbledick v. United States · Abney v. United States · Korematsu 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 1,342 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Final judgment in a criminal case means sentence. The sentence is the judgment.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Petitioner stands a convicted felon and’unless the judgment against him is vacated or reversed he is subject to all the disabilities flowing from such a judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(p)robation or suspension of sentence comes as an act of grace to one convicted of a crime * * *”
1 later decision 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.