Cross v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
392 F.2d 360 · 1968
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 1999 · most notably Roger Lee McQueen v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden (1974), Nixon v. Sirica (1973)
47 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
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. § 371
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Rogers v. United States · Braverman v. United States · Lawn v. United States · Douglas v. Alabama
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] charge of inadequate representation can prevail “only if it can be said that what was or was not done by the defendant’s attorney for his client made the proceedings a farce and a mockery of justice, shocking to the conscience of the Court.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the indictment names persons unknown as coconspirators, and there is evidence to support the charge that one of the two defendants conspired with the unknown persons, his conviction can stand, even though the other defendant was acquitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial was certainly not a sham or a mockery of justice and in fact was probably, as Judge Young noted, the best tried criminal case of that term.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McQueen v. State
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.