Pollard v. Fennell’s Empirical Analysis
400 F.2d 421 · 1968
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States v. Parodi (1983), United States v. Liddy (1974)
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on United States v. Joseph A. Chase, United States of America v. Robert H. Parrish, United States of America v. Wyatt J. Roy, Jr. · Simon v. United States · Gray v. Sanders · American Packing & Provision Co. v. United States · United States v. Godel
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial judge must always remember that he occupies 'a position of preeminence and special persuasiveness' in the eyes of the jury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“acting, not as a disinterested prober for the truth, but as an advocate and, in addition, [had acted] as a witness,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“and the impact of a question by the court on both the witness and the jury ... should not be underestimated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.