Ferguson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
307 F.2d 787 · 1962
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 1981 · most notably Carbo v. United States (1963), United States v. McGuire (1967)
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 47 U.S.C. § 152 · 47 U.S.C. § 605
Relies on Olmstead v. United States · Goldman v. United States · On Lee v. United States · Rathbun v. United States · Weiss 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Both Congress and the Oklahoma legislature have indicated what those respective bodies consider necessary for the control of telephonic communications. Such legislation need not be in harmony, and may conflict * * but the course of a federal criminal prosecution cannot be controlled by state law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * a regulation or order directed to the carriers over whom the Federal Communications Commission has jurisdiction, 47 U.S.C.A. § 152 , cannot be viewed as creating a new crime prohibited to the citizenry nor as changing the rules of evidence evolved in the federal courts.””
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.