Blue v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
342 F.2d 894 · 1964
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 5 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Gaither v. United States (1969), United States v. Joseph A. Chase, United States of America v. Robert H. Parrish, United States of America v. Wyatt J. Roy, Jr. (1967)
82 federal appellate · 5 district · 30 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
Relies on Quinn v. United States · United States v. Plattner · Quinn v. United States · United States v. Stevenson
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] main purpose of a preliminary hearing, as we have noted, is to afford the accused a chance to secure his immediate release by persuading the Commissioner that there is no probable cause to hold him on the charges in question. Where, as here, the accused has been found guilty of those charges in a full-scale trial that we have otherwise found to be free of error, the chances that he could persuade a magistrate that no probable cause exists for his continued detention are perhaps not un generously to be characterized as speculative.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Horrocks · Jones v. State“"the time to object to defects in the preliminary hearing is before arraignment and trial, and 'unless some reason is shown why counsel could not have discovered and challenged the defect before trial, it will generally be assumed that any objections to the preliminary proceedings were considered and waived, and no post-conviction remedies will be available.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mickelson v. State · Jones v. State“"It has generally been thought that the purpose of a preliminary hearing is to afford the accused (1) an opportunity to establish that there is no probable cause for his continued detention and thereby to regain his liberty and, possibly, escape prosecution, and (2) a chance to learn in advance of trial the foundations of the charge and the evidence that will comprise the government's case against him."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chung v. Ogata · Ross v. Sirica
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.