Sealfon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
332 U.S. 575 · 1948
Citation profile
648 federal appellate · 36 district · 446 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,329 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Ashe v. Swenson (1970), Benton v. Maryland (1969)
648 federal appellate · 36 district · 446 state decisions — followed in 42 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. Sealfon (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 550
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · Frank v. Mangum · United States v. Oppenheimer · De Sollar v. Hanscome
Cited together with Ashe v. Swenson · United States v. Oppenheimer · Dunn v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Pinkerton 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 1,329 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be set in a practical frame and viewed with an eye to all the circumstances of the proceedings.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It was a second attempt to prove the agreement which at each trial was crucial to the prosecution’s case and which was necessarily adjudicated in the former trial. That the prosecution may not do.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But res judicata may be a defense in a second prosecution. That doctrine applies to criminal as well as civil proceedings (United States v. Oppenheimer, 242 U.S. 85 , 87, 37 S.Ct. 68 , 69, 61 L.Ed. 161 ; United States v. De Angelo, 3 Cir., 138 F.2d 466 , 468; Harris v. State, 193 Ga. 109 , 17 S.E.2d 573 , 147 A.L.R. 991 ; see Frank v. Mangum, 237 U.S. 309 , 334, 35 S.Ct. 582 , 590, 59 L.Ed. 969 ) and operates to conclude those matters in issue which the verdict determined though the offenses be different.””
3 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.