Marvel v. Zerbst’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.2d 974 · 1936
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2007
10 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 114 · 28 U.S.C. § 413
Relies on Logan v. United States · Salinger v. Loisel · Cuddy · Ruthenberg v. United States · Rosecrans 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the plain text of the Sixth Amendment, the contemporary construction placed upon it by the Judiciary Act of 1789 expressly authorizing the drawing of a jury from a part of the district, and the continuous legislative and judicial practice from the beginning.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the indictments have been returned in the division where the grand jury is in session, the court should remit them for trial in the division where the grand jury is in session, the court should remit them for trial to the respective divisions where the offenses are charged to have been committed except in cases where the defendant consents to a disposal in another division.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Jurors shall be returned from such parts of the district, from time to time, as the court shall direct, so as to be most favorable to an impartial trial, and so as not to incur an unnecessary expense, or unduly burden the citizens of any part of. the district with such service.””
1 later decision 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.