Powell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
347 F.2d 156 · 1965
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Gilbert v. United States (1966), United States v. Bolden (1975)
55 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act))
Relies on Bollenbach v. United States · Burton v. United States · United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United States Bay Counties Dist Council of Carpenters · Hawkins v. United States · Cleveland 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ultimate question is 'whether the charge taken as a whole was such as to confuse or leave an erroneous impression in the minds of the jurors.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is no answer to say that the supplemental instruction was correct, so far as it went; or that it was to be read in light of the original instructions and that these fairly presented the issues.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“jury makes explicit its difficulties a trial judge should clear them away with concrete accuracy.”
2 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.