United States v. Sheldon’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.2d 213 · 1976
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably Doe ex rel. Doe v. New York City Department of Social Services (1981), 41 Cal. 3d 714 - People v. Figueroa (1986)
33 federal appellate · 5 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 United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Quercia v. United States · Hampton 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trial judge has a duty to conduct the trial carefully, patiently, and impartially. He must be above even the appearance of being partial to the prosecution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We cannot but conclude that the remarks quoted above must necessarily have been understood by the members of the jury to indicate a belief by the trial judge that the defense was without merit or that the defendants and their witnesses were worthy of scant belief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Derden III v. McNeel
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.