United States v. Pierson’s Empirical Analysis
503 F.2d 173 · 1974
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably United States v. Butcher (1977), United States v. Gadson (2014)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Zimberg v. United States · Wallace v. United States · Zimberg v. United States · UNITEC Corp. v. Beatty Safway Scaffold Co. · John Rhynard v. Eugene Filori
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In giving -his opinion, [the officer] was merely relating impressions resulting from his observation of the hole in the wall. By indicating the direction from which he thought the bullet was fired, he probably gave the jurors a clearer conception of the nature of the bullet hole than had he attempted to describe the features of the hole. Having observed the bullet hole itself, he would be better qualified than the jury to draw a conclusion regarding the direction from which the bullet was fired.”
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.