O'Brien v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
411 F.2d 522 · 1969
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 1987 · most notably United States v. Uptain (1976), Posey v. United States (1969)
42 federal appellate · 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 Berger v. United States · Hirabayashi v. United States · Palermo v. United States · Campbell v. United States · Dunlop 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The chief test [of the admissibility of evidence] is relevance and materiality.”
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.