Dennis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1,203 federal appellate · 149 district · 511 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,542 later decisions (68 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Alderman v. United States (1969), Harris v. New York (1971)
1,203 federal appellate · 149 district · 511 state decisions — followed in 40 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
reviewedDennis v. United States (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Glasser v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Krulewitch v. United States · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Alford v. United States
Cited together with United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company v. United States · Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · Douglas Oil Company of California v. Petrol Stops Northwest
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 2,542 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exclusive access to a storehouse of relevant fact.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any conspiracy for the purpose of impairing, obstructing, or defeating the lawful function of any department of government.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In our adversary system, it is enough for judges to judge. The determination of what may be useful to the defense can properly and effectively be made only by an advocate.”
22 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.