Young v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
309 F.2d 662 · 1962
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 1996 · most notably Belton v. United States (1967), Commonwealth v. Garcia (1977)
37 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Stevenson v. United States · Kinard 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . . However implausible, unreliable, or incredible, only the jury had the right to make the evaluation of [the witnesses’] testimony.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]efense counsel might well have given the trial judge more assistance in presenting what is at best a close question of the right to the claimed charge. While counsel are usually not permitted to argue rulings after they have been made, this problem might well have been avoided had counsel, in requesting the charge, pointed specifically to the testimony on which he relied for the added instruction and to the controlling authorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even when instructed on the lesser included offense of simple assault it would be permissible for the jury to totally disbelieve * * * [the witness] or to believe that part which tended to exculpate appellant from an intent to rob. [ 114 U.S.App.D.C. 42 , 43, 309 F.2d 662 , 663 (1962), Emphasis supplied.]”
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.