Rood v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
340 F.2d 506 · 1965
Citation profile
33 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably Spinelli v. United States (1967), James v. United States (1969)
33 federal appellate ·
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. § 473
Relies on Hagner v. United States · United States v. Debrow · Costello v. United States · Smith v. United States · Williams 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An indictment is deemed good when it informs the accused of the offense with which he is charged with sufficient specificity to enable him to prepare his defense and to avoid the danger of the accused being again prosecuted for the same offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Convictions are no longer reversed because of minor and technical deficiencies which did not prejudice the accused. (Citations omitted.) This has been a salutary development in the criminal law.””
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.