Ross v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
349 F.2d 210 · 1965
Citation profile
245 federal appellate · 25 district · 132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 454 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1995 · most notably United States v. Marion (1971), Dickey v. Florida (1970)
245 federal appellate · 25 district · 132 state decisions — followed in 30 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.
Relationships
Relies on Draper v. United States · Gore v. United States · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Goss v. Board of Education · Williams 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 454 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The defendant's] failure of memory and his inability to reconstruct what he did not remember virtually precluded his showing in what respects his defense might have been more successful if the delay had been shorter. . . . In a very real sense, the extent to which he was prejudiced by the Government's delay is evidenced by the difficulty he encountered in establishing with particularity the elements of that prejudice.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . Without attempting to define the precise reach of the Fifth Amendment in this context, a due regard for our supervisory responsibility for criminal proceedings in this jurisdiction requires in our view, the reversal of this conviction.” (p. 216.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for supplementation of the record with respect to the reasonableness of this delay in apprising appellant of the charge against him, and the effect of that delay on appellant’s ability to defend against the charge.”
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.