United States v. Larkin’s Empirical Analysis
417 F.2d 617 · 1969
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably 16 Cal. 3d 282 - People v. Duran (1976), James Edward Kennedy v. Harold J. Cardwell, Warden (1973)
21 federal appellate · 11 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2114
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Irvin v. Dowd · Remmer v. United States · Willingham v. Morgan · United States v. Woodner
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Had defendant been unaware of the court’s interviews with the jurors [citing cases], or had the court’s action infringed on a specific constitutional guarantee, such as the right of confrontation, we would feel obliged to apply the stricter test of Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 , 87 S.Ct. 824 , 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967) in determining prejudice. When, however, the trial court exercises its discretion to safeguard defendant’s rights in a matter collateral to the main issues at trial, and defendant acquiesces, we think defendant must make some plain showing of preju-”
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.