Dancy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
361 F.2d 75 · 1965
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 1998 · most notably Mason v. United States (1969), Coleman v. Burnett (1973)
24 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
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 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Pollard v. United States · Fiswick v. United States · St. Pierre v. United States · Rosenblatt v. Baer · Wood 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defense counsel's conduct of the cross-examination of witnesses at the trial reflects a tentative and probing approach due to his ignorance of certain doubtful areas in the government's proof which might well have been known to him had he been able to participate in the preliminary hearing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henderson v. Frank“be disregarded and set at naught with impunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ross v. Sirica
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.