Remmer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
328 federal appellate · 21 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 497 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), Mesarosh v. United States (1956)
328 federal appellate · 21 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedRemmer v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Remmer v. United States · Goldbaum v. United States · Millinery Center Building Corp. v. Commissioner · Remmer 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 497 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . reveals such a state of facts that neither Mr. Smith (the juror) nor anyone else could say that he was not affected in his freedom of action as a juror.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In a criminal case, any private communication, contact, or tampering directly or indirectly, with a juror during a trial about the matter pending before the jury is, for obvious reasons, deemed presumptively prejudicial, if not made in pursuance of known rules of the court and the instructions and directions of the court made during the trial, witlv full knowledge of the parties. The presumption is not conclusive, but the burden rests heavily upon the Government to establish, after notice to and hearing of the defendant, that such contact with the juror was harmless to the defendant.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sold Cal-Neva for $850,000 and really got about $300,000 under the table which he daresn't touch. Why don't you make a deal with him?”
2 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.