Hunter v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
62 F.2d 217 · 1932
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Ruiz v. Estelle (1982), Billeci v. United States (1950)
49 federal appellate · 11 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 Butts v. United States · Adler v. United States · United States v. Wray · O'Shaughnessy 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial judge 'should never assume the role of prosecuting attorney and lend the weight of his great influence to the side of the government[.]'”
7 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.