Polansky v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
332 F.2d 233 · 1964
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1992
13 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 26 U.S.C. § 5851 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on United States v. Atkinson · Bollenbach v. United States · Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners · Malatkofski v. United States · Golden 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the jury should not be required to determine which part of a contradictory charge is correct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. State · Hall v. State“in a substantial manner appellant's right to a fair trial.”
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.