Marshall v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
915 federal appellate · 42 district · 479 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,682 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Irvin v. Dowd (1961), Sheppard v. Maxwell (1966)
915 federal appellate · 42 district · 479 state decisions — followed in 48 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
reviewedMarshall v. United States (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on McNabb v. United States · Michelson v. United States · Holt v. United States · Bruno v. United States
Cited together with Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Rideau v. Louisiana · Estes v. Texas · Murphy v. Florida
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 1,682 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“each case must turn on its special facts.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“doubts whether exposure of some of the jurors to newspaper articles about petitioner was so prejudicial in the setting of the case as to warrant the exercise of our supervisory power to order a new trial.”
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.