Cross v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
335 F.2d 987 · 1964
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 6 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Baker v. United States (1968), People v. Massie (1967)
83 federal appellate · 6 district · 67 state decisions — followed in 22 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3481
Relies on Blumenthal v. United States · Schaffer v. United States · Pointer v. United States · Drew v. United States · Adamson v. People of State of California
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accused wishe(d) to testify on one but not the other of two joined offenses which (were) clearly distinct in time, place and evidence.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“If it appears that a defendant is prejudiced by a joinder of offenses ... the court may order an election or separate trials of counts ... or provide whatever other relief justice requires.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Relief from Prejudicial Joinder. If it appears that a defendant or the government is prejudiced by a joinder of offenses or of defendants in an indictment or information or by such joinder for trial together, the court may order an election or separate trials of counts, grant a severance of defendants or provide whatever other relief justice requires.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.