Hanks v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
388 F.2d 171 · 1968
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably United States v. Bourassa (1969), Bond v. United States (1968)
52 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2114 · 18 U.S.C. § 3146 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3150 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3481 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · Palermo v. United States · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)f there was error, it was invited by defense counsel and he cannot now complain”
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.