Kotteakos v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
328 U.S. 750 · 1946
Citation profile
8,035 federal appellate · 393 district · 3,248 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15,058 later decisions (128 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Chapman v. State of California (1967), United States v. Olano (1993)
8,035 federal appellate · 393 district · 3,248 state decisions — followed in 46 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1702
Relies on Berger v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Bram v. United States · Bollenbach v. United States
Cited together with Brecht v. Abrahamson · Chapman v. State of California · Berger v. United States · Blumenthal v. United States · Glasser 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 15,058 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict.”
883 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the rim of the wheel to enclose the spokes.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]hieves who dispose of their loot to a single receiver--a single”
7 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.