United States v. Mayer’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
197 federal appellate · 30 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 349 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois (1978), Hill v. United States (1962)
197 federal appellate · 30 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 14 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 McClellan v. Carland · United States v. Mayer · State of Minnesota v. Ethan Allen Hitchcock · United States v. Ju Toy · Byers v. McAuley
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 349 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n cases of prejudicial misconduct in the course of the trial, the misbehavior or partiality of jurors, and newly discovered evidence, as well as where it is sought to have the court in which the case was tried reconsider its rulings, the remedy is by a motion for a new trial_”
19 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.