United States v. Markham’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 187 · 1976
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably United States v. Evans (1978), United States v. Perkins (1984)
81 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Glasser v. United States · Hamling v. United States · Russell v. United States · United States v. Cruikshank · Smith v. Illinois
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a natural tendency to influence, or [is] capable of affecting or influencing, a governmental function,'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by practical, not technical considerations. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The validity of an indictment is determined from reading the indictment as a whole . . . and . . . must be determined by practical, not technical, considerations.”
2 later decisions 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.