Russell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1,512 federal appellate · 232 district · 474 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,959 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Gault (1967), Hamling v. United States (1974)
1,512 federal appellate · 232 district · 474 state decisions — followed in 43 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Berger v. United States · Morissette v. United States · Roth v. United States · Costello v. United States · Stirone v. United States
Cited together with Hartman v. United States · Hamling v. United States · Stirone v. United States · United States v. Debrow · Bain Jr
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 2,959 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contains the elements of the offense intended to be charged, 'and sufficiently apprises the defendant of what he must be prepared to meet,'”
263 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“identify the subject under congressional subcommittee inquiry”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lopez v. Smith · Spector v. State“an indictment performs two significant and constitutionally based functions. First, it must inform the accused of the “nature and cause of the accusation,” and, secondly, ... must serve as a guide by which it may be determined whether, if subsequently charged, a person is twice placed in jeopardy for the same offense.”
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.