Silber v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
296 federal appellate · 3 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 471 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Olano (1993), Faretta v. California (1975)
296 federal appellate · 3 district · 84 state decisions — followed in 15 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 United States v. Atkinson · Russell v. United States · Weems v. United States · Hartman v. United States · Brasfield 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 471 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In exceptional circumstances, especially in criminal cases, appellate courts, in the public interest, may, of their own motion, notice errors to which no exception has been taken, if the errors are obvious, or if they otherwise seriously affect the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While ordinarily we do not take note of errors not called to the attention of the Court of Appeals nor properly raised here, that rule is not without exception.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial court squarely considered and decided the issue”
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.