United States v. Healy’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
390 federal appellate · 58 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 667 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois (1978), United States v. Dieter (1976)
390 federal appellate · 58 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Calderon · Carroll v. United States · Gooch v. United States · United States v. Williams
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 667 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'traditional and virtually unquestioned practice'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the opportunity to petition a lower court for the correction of errors might, in some circumstances, actually prolong the process of litigation — since plenary consideration of a question of law here ordinarily consumes more time than disposition of a petition for rehearing — and could, in some cases, impose an- added and unnecessary burden of adjudication upon this Court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“simply whether in a criminal case a timely petition for rehearing by the Government filed within the permissible time for appeal renders the judgment not final for purposes of appeal until the court disposes of the petition . . . .”
3 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.