Berman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
140 federal appellate · 9 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably Orr v. Orr (1979), Carlisle v. United States (1996)
140 federal appellate · 9 district · 33 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Denno · Fay v. Noia · Link v. Wabash Railroad · McNabb v. United States · United States v. Robinson
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, any civilized system of judicial administration should have enough looseness in the joints to avert gross denials of a litigant's rights growing out of his lawyer's mistake or even negligence in failing to file the proper kind of pleading at precisely the prescribed moment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Hodge · Labat v. Bennett“justice not be thwarted by those with too little imagination to see that procedural rules are not ends in themselves, but simply means to ... the achievement of equal justice for all,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(2) Time for Taking Appeal. The notice of appeal by a defendant shall be filed within 10 days after the entry of the judgment or order appealed from. A notice of appeal filed after the announcement of a decision, sentence or order but before entry of the judgment or order shall be treated as filed after such entry and on the day thereof. If a timely motion in arrest of judgment or for a new trial on any ground other than newly discovered evidence has been made, an appeal from a judgment of conviction may be taken within 10 days after the entry of the order denying the motion * * *. A judgment or order is entered within the meaning of this paragraph when it is entered in the criminal docket * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.