United States v. Sisson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
334 federal appellate · 21 district · 190 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 750 later decisions (62 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Rose v. Lundy (1982), United States v. Jorn (1971)
334 federal appellate · 21 district · 190 state decisions — followed in 33 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 Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Thornhill v. Alabama · Boys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerks Union, Local 770 · Ball v. United States · Will v. United States
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 750 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he axiom that courts should endeavor to give statutory language that meaning that nurtures the policies underlying the legislation is one that guides us when circumstances not plainly covered by the terms of the statute are subsumed by the underlying policies to which Congress was committed”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bottomed on factual considerations . . . made on the basis of evidence adduced at trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lynch · State v. Kleinwaks“An arrest of judgment was the technical term describing the act of a trial judge refusing to enter judgment on the verdict because of an error appearing on the face of the record that rendered the judgment invalid.”
4 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.