Young v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
315 U.S. 257 · 1942
Citation profile
204 federal appellate · 10 district · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 458 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Sibron v. State of New York Peters (1968), Garcia v. United States (1985)
204 federal appellate · 10 district · 113 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedYoung v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Parlton v. United States · State v. Green · Crancer v. Lowden · Young 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 458 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The considered judgment of the law enforcement officers that reversible error has been committed is entitled to great weight, but our judicial obligations compel us to examine independently the errors confessed.”
26 later decisions 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.