Logan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
411 F.2d 679 · 1968
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 1980
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Galvan v. Press · Bishop v. United States · Mellon 206 1920 v. New Jersey Shipbuilding & Dredging Company · Green v. United States · Fryer 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]ust be such as may be inferred from the circumstances of the killing. It must be such as flows from an act which imports danger to another, done so wantonly as to manifest depravity of mind and disregard of human life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the intent may be deduced from all the circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is always to be taken into consideration”
1 later decision 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.