Palermo v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
1,042 federal appellate · 119 district · 397 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,878 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Alderman v. United States (1969), Pennsylvania v. Ritchie (1987)
1,042 federal appellate · 119 district · 397 state decisions — followed in 36 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
reviewedUnited States v. Palermo (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Nardone v. United States · Jencks v. United States · Gordon v. United States · Funk v. United States
Cited together with Jencks v. United States · Campbell v. United States · Brady v. State of Maryland · Rosenberg v. United States · Campbell 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 1,878 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can fairly be said to be the witness' own.”
80 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule of discovery is different where a prosecution witness has testified on direct examination in the trial of the case.”
60 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Exercising our power, in the absence of statutory provision, to prescribe procedures for the administration of justice in the federal courts, this Court * * * in Jencks v. United States, 353 U.S. 657 [77 S.Ct. 1007, 1 L.Ed.2d 1103], decided that the defense in a federal criminal prosecution was entitled, under certain circumstances, to obtain, for impeachment purposes, statements which had been made to government agents by government witnesses.”
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.