United States v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
304 F.2d 702 · 1962
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 1989 · most notably United States v. Hoffa (1965), United States v. Martin (1984)
65 federal appellate · 2 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 Glasser v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · American Communications Ass'n v. Douds · Avery v. State of Alabama · Beck v. Washington
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court, as well as the appellate tribunal, must view the evidence and the inferences that may justifiably be drawn therefrom, in the light most favorable to the government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Loyalty to a superior does not provide a license for 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.