United States v. Colabella’s Empirical Analysis
448 F.2d 1299 · 1971
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2010 · most notably Mu'Min v. Virginia (1991), United States v. Tramunti (1975)
29 federal appellate · 4 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 26 U.S.C. § 4701
Relies on Irvin v. Dowd · Dennis v. United States · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Cardillo v. United States · Mills v. Alabama
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is too much to expect of human nature that a juror would volunteer, in open court, before his fellow jurors, that he would be influenced in his verdict by a newspaper story of the trial. Not only so, but had one or more of them said they would be so influenced, and especially if they had explained why, the damage to the defendant would have been spread to the listening other jurors.”
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.