Cochran v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.2d 585 · 1962
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1984 · most notably United States v. Leach (1970), United States v. Maestas (1977)
23 federal appellate · 3 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 Costello v. United States · Michelson v. United States · Greer v. United States · Carrado v. United States · Stewart 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * All facts affording any reasonable inference as to the identity of a person charged with having committed a crime are properly admitted when it tends to establish guilt. Any reasonable inference drawn therefrom which might tend to discredit appellant’s character was only incidental and is no valid ground for excluding such testimony * * * ””
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.