United States v. Pentado’s Empirical Analysis
463 F.2d 355 · 1972
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2009 · most notably Hamling v. United States (1974), United States v. Wiener (1976)
84 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Wong Sun v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Massiah v. United States · Preston 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . .there was no showing of a substantial noncompliance in that, considering the population of the District and the size of the master wheel, it was “practicable” (as the Plan phrases it) to have added the names of newly registered voters or that the absence of them could have produced any substantial effect on the fair cross-section concept. 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is certainly fair to assume that anyone engaged in a cash transaction of this magnitude would take steps against having the contraband or the purchase money stolen.”
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.