Becher v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.2d 45 · 1924
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Lakeside v. Oregon (1978), United States v. Kelly (1965)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 15 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
Relies on United States v. Stafoff · Hickory v. United States · Williams v. Conger · United States v. Heinze
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is no doubt better if a defendant requests no charge upon the subject, for the trial judge to say nothing about it; but to say that when he does, it is error, carries the doctrine of self-incrimination to an absurdity.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * It is only in cases such as forgery, counterfeiting, or the misuse of the mails that it is necessary to set forth the document in full.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry v. State
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.