United States v. Hoffa’s Empirical Analysis
349 F.2d 20 · 1965
Citation profile
193 federal appellate · 13 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 275 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably United States v. Nixon (1974), Hoffa v. United States (1966)
193 federal appellate · 13 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 16 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
Relationships
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Wong Sun v. United States · Swain v. State of Alabama · Costello v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. 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 275 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“closing argument of the [p]rosecutor must be considered in the light of the previous arguments of defense counsel in order to determine whether there was provocation for what the [p]rosecutor said.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a [rebuttable] presumption that each witness, including the parties, has sworn to the truth and it was the duty of the jury to reconcile conflicting statements if they could, but if they could not, they were the exclusive judges of the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given their testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a separate instruction with particular reference to the testimony of an informer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.