Bailey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
416 F.2d 1110 · 1969
Citation profile
109 federal appellate · 2 district · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 223 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably United States v. Carlton E. Bryant, United States of America v. William E. Turner (1971), United States v. Staten (1978)
109 federal appellate · 2 district · 104 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Glasser v. United States · Wong Sun v. United States · Allen v. United States · United States v. Di Re · Nye & Nissen 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 223 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With cautious application in appreciation of its innate shortcomings, flight may under particular conditions be the basis for an inference of consciousness of guilt.”
18 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.