United States v. Mardian’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.2d 973 · 1976
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 17 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc. (1978), United States v. Haldeman (1976)
91 federal appellate · 17 district · 8 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 Glasser v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Opper v. United States · Lutwak v. United States · Blumenthal 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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the evidence against one or more defendants is far more damaging than the evidence against the moving party”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a great disparity in the weight of the evidence”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) defendant's right to an attorney of his choice is not so absolute as to permit disruption of the fair and orderly administration of justice when another competent attorney is available to continue the defense.”
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.