United States v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
585 F.2d 1087 · 1978
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2010 · most notably United States v. Bailey (1980), United States v. Bailey (1979)
31 federal appellate · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4082 · 18 U.S.C. § 751 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Morissette v. United States · Jones v. Cunningham · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Peyton v. Rowe
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he defenses were designed to spare a person from punishment if he acted ‘under threats or conditions that a person of ordinary firmness would have been unable to resist,’ or if he reasonably believed that criminal action ‘was necessary to avoid a harm more serious than that sought to be prevented by the statute defining the offense.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an unlawful and 'present, imminent, and impending [threat] of such a nature as to induce a well-grounded apprehension of death or serious bodily injury,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“by virtue of an arrest on a charge of felony,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.