United States v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 138 · 1970
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably United States v. Calandra (1974), United States v. Dionisio (1973)
71 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas · Consolidated Gas Electric Light & Power Co. v. Pennsylvania Water & Power Co. · Campbell v. United States · United States v. Citizens Utilities Co. · United States v. Marchisio
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A grand jury's investigation is not fully carried out until every available clue has been run down and all witnesses examined in every proper way to find if a crime has been committed....”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the natural effect or tendency to impede, influence or dissuade the Grand Jury from pursuing its investigation.'”
12 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.