Pharr v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.2d 767 · 1931
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2010 · most notably North Carolina v. Alford (1970), United States v. Robertson (1978)
23 federal appellate · 5 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 Kercheval v. United States · Kirby v. United States · United States v. Norris · Metropolitan Ry Co v. Church Brightwood Ry Co · Galbreath 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Error is assigned to the conduct of counsel for the government in interrogating appellant about a plea of nolo contendere that he had entered to the indictment but had withdrawn. Counsel first asked appellant if he had not entered a plea of guilt. Appellant answered: Won say that I pleaded guilty/ to- which counsel replied: ‘Yes, you entered the same plea that Mr. Beauchamp did.’ Appellant then said, ‘I certainly have never pleaded guilty/ whereupon counsel replied: ‘You pleaded nolo contendere, didn’t you?’ Appellant then stated he understood that was a denial of guilt, to which counsel replied, as if he were surprised or questioned the veracity of appellant: ‘You understood that the plea of nolo contendere was a denial of guilt?’ To this appellant answered: ‘A denial of guilt.’ Without having, objected to the questions, counsel for appellant at this point intervened and requested the court to withdraw the jury and enter an order of mistrial. This motion was overruled alter tbe court bad instructed tbe jury to disregard tbe questions and answers. For all practical purposes, tbe plea of nolo contendere is one of guilt. United States v. Norris, 281 U. S. 619 , 50 S. Ct. 424 , 74 L. Ed. 1076 . To bave permitted tbe government to prove that appellant bad entered sucb a plea and withdrawn it would have been reversible error. Kercheval v. United States, 274 U. S. 220 , 47 S. Ct. 582 , 71 L. Ed. 1009 . Although tbe questions and answers referred to were not objected to, tbe motion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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