Marcus v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.2d 854 · 1936
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1983 · most notably Fuller v. United States (1967), Bishop v. United States (1939)
25 federal appellate · 4 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 Sparf v. United States · Davis v. United States · Andersen v. United States · People v. Hobbs · McKee v. State
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Murder in the first degree * * *. —Whoever, being of sound memory and discretion, purposely, and either of deliberate and premeditated malice or by means of poison, or in perpetrating or in attempting to perpetrate any offense punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, kills another, is guilty of murder in the first degree. Ht $ v * $ “Murder in second degree. — Whoever with malice aforethought * * * kills another is guilty of murder in the second degree.””
2 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.