United States v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
774 federal appellate · 175 district · 1,058 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,644 later decisions (146 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably North Carolina v. Pearce (1969), North Carolina v. Alford (1970)
774 federal appellate · 175 district · 1,058 state decisions — followed in 49 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 Griffin v. California · Shelton v. Tucker · Singer v. United States · Field v. Clark
Cited together with Brady v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Griffin v. California · Champlin Refining Co. v. Corporation Commission · Furman v. Georgia
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 2,644 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evil in the federal statute is not that it necessarily coerces guilty pleas and jury waivers but simply that it needlessly encourages them.”
78 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the verdict of the jury shall so recommend.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unless it is evident that the legislature would not have enacted those provisions which are within its power, independently of that which is not, the invalid part may be dropped if what is left is fully operative as a law.”
15 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.