Glasser v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
315 U.S. 60 · 1942
Citation profile
17,141 federal appellate · 386 district · 3,322 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26,381 later decisions (247 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Strickland v. Washington (1984), Jackson v. Virginia (1979)
17,141 federal appellate · 386 district · 3,322 state decisions — followed in 50 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
reviewedUnited States v. Glasser (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 411
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Cited together with Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Kotteakos v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Holland 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 26,381 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is substantial evidence, taking the view most favorable to the Government, to support it.”
594 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“development and collocation of circumstances.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a way of consummating the conspiracy ... which, like the use of a gun to effect a conspiracy to murder, is purely ancillary to the substantive offense”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How later courts have treated this case
Across 102 classified citations — whether each later court relied on, limited, or rejected this decision:
- 86followed
- 12cited without characterization
- 4explained
Treatment is classified from each citing court's own sentence. This is a running sample — coverage grows as the classification pass proceeds; overrulings are also tracked authoritatively in the case status.