Feldman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
322 U.S. 487 · 1944
Citation profile
219 federal appellate · 9 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 499 later decisions (91 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022 · most notably International Shoe Co. v. Washington (1945), Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
219 federal appellate · 9 district · 94 state decisions — followed in 20 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. Feldman (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · McNabb v. United States · Nardone 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 499 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was added to the original Constitution in the conviction that too high a price may be paid even for the unhampered enforcement of the criminal law and that, in its attainment, other social objects of a free society should not be sacrificed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No person ... shall be compelled in any Criminal Case to be a witness against himself.” U.S. Const, amend. V. Like other provisions of the Bill of Rights, this guarantee”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“* * * [F]or more than one hundred years, ever since Barron v. [Mayor and City Council of City of] Baltimore [1833], 7 Pet. 243 [ 32 U.S. 243 ], 8 L.Ed. 672, one of the principles of our Constitution has been that these [the Fourth and Fifth] Amendments protect only against invasion of civil liberties by the Government whose conduct they alone limit. Brown v. Walker, 161 U.S. 591 , 606, 16 S.Ct. 644, 650, 40 L.Ed. 819; Jack v. [State of] Kansas, 199 U.S. 372 , 380, 26 S.Ct. 73, 75, 50 L.Ed. 234; Twining v. [State of] New Jersey, 211 U.S. 78 , 29 S.Ct. 14, 53 L.Ed. 97.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnston v. Earle · Bell v. Hood
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.