Powell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.2d 705 · 1965
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 5 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1994 · most notably United States v. Marion (1971), United States v. Watson (1975)
77 federal appellate · 5 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 15 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3282
Relies on Nardone v. United States · Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company v. United States · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Humble Pipe Line Co. v. Waggonner · Prado Oil & Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■x- -x- -x- The people in this subculture simply do not have desk pads and social calendars to assist them in determining where they were at a particular time many months before. -X- -» -X-”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We think that an accused must show two things in order to invoke an exercise of our supervisory power because of alleged basic “unfairness,” resulting from claimed delay in his arrest: that there was no legitimate reason for the delay, and that he was prejudiced by the delay. Appellant bears the burden of establishing his claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Holiday
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.