United States v. Blanton’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.2d 907 · 1975
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Adams (Slip Opinion) (2015), United States v. Haywood (2002)
39 federal appellate · 3 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. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Sedillo 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he deliberate injection of testimony concerning another wholly unrelated offense ... was error.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so overwhelming that the error could not possibly have influenced the jury's decision or affected the substantial rights of the defendant”
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.