Offutt v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
792 federal appellate · 47 district · 689 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,978 later decisions (99 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Richardson v. Perales (1971), United States v. Leon (1984)
792 federal appellate · 47 district · 689 state decisions — followed in 42 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedOffutt v. United States (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on McNabb v. United States · Cooke v. United States · United States v. Appalachian Electric Power Co. · Sacher v. United States
Cited together with In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Sacher v. United States · Tumey v. State of Ohio · Cooke v. United States · Mayberry v. Pennsylvania
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 1,978 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“justice must satisfy the appearance of justice.”
86 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“modicum of quick temper that must be allowed even judges.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ll of such cases ... present difficult questions for the judge. All we can say on the whole matter is that where conditions do not make it impracticable, or where the delay may not injure public or private rights, a judge called upon to act in a case of contempt by personal attack upon him, may, without flinching from his duty, properly ask that one of his fellow judges take his place.”
7 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.