Heard v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
348 F.2d 43 · 1964
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably Ross v. United States (1965), United States v. DeCoster (1973)
63 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Robinson v. State of California · Davis v. United States · Turner v. Louisiana · Tatum v. United States · McDonald 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a mere showing of narcotics addiction, without more, does not constitute ‘some evidence’ of mental disease or insanity so as to raise the issue of criminal responsibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the question whether the evidence in a particular case constitutes `some evidence' of insanity ... is a question of law for the court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sira v. Morton““The majority of this court do not, however, share Judge Bazelon’s view that trial counsel’s performance was deficient.” 7”
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.