Bailey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.2d 982 · 1931
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2003
15 federal appellate · 2 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 Lewis v. United States · Pointer v. United States · Aldridge v. United States · Alford v. State · Neal 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The answers of prospective jurors as to such matters, which might have the effect of unduly influencing them, and their manner and demeanor while under examination, would do no more than furnish such evidence ... [enabling the defendant and counsel] to exercise intelligently the right of challenge, either for cause or peremptory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bedford v. State“to do what was reasonably practicable to enable the accused to have the benefit of the right of peremptory challenge or to prevent unfairness in the trial.”
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.