Yates v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
1,208 federal appellate · 136 district · 564 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,620 later decisions (152 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), Burks v. United States (1978)
1,208 federal appellate · 136 district · 564 state decisions — followed in 42 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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
reviewedYates v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Commissioner v. Sunnen · Wade v. Hunter · Dennis v. United States · Stromberg v. People of State of California
Cited together with Griffin v. United States · Burks v. United States · Stromberg v. People of State of California · Dennis v. United States · Glasser 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 2,620 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he proper rule to be applied is that which requires a verdict to be set aside in cases where the verdict is supportable on one ground, but not on another, and it is impossible to tell which ground the jury selected.”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the conspiracy [was] at work' " within the limitations period and that during that period, the conspiracy was "neither a project still resting in the minds of the conspirators nor a fully completed operation no longer in existence.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * *. That doctrine [collateral estoppel] makes conclusive in subsequent proceedings only determinations of fact, and mixed fact and law, that were essential to the decision.”
10 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.