United States v. Allocco’s Empirical Analysis
305 F.2d 704 · 1962
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Houser v. United States (1974), Swan v. Clinton (1996)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 453
Relies on Hill v. United States · Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk · McGee v. International Life Insurance · Bain Peanut Co. v. Pinson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hether [a vacancy] arose during the session of the Senate, or during their recess, it equally requires to be filled.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s to the mode of appointing the judges: This is the same with that of appointing the officers of the union in general....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is conceded, of course, that a United States [Circuit or] District Judge is a judge of an “inferior” court within the meaning of the term employed in Article III; and that such judges must be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate as provided by Article II, Section 2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomson v. Robb
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.