United States v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.2d 618 · 1937
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2009 · most notably California v. Green (1970), Bridges v. Wixon (1945)
73 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Caminetti v. United States · Wilson v. United States · Powers v. United States · Di Carlo v. United States · United States v. Becker
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judge’s charge to the jury mended nothing; he left the jury to disentangle in their minds the innocuous part which the witness had conceded from the great bulk which he had dis-affirmed * * * the natural conclusion was not only that defendants (were guilty of the crimes charged) but that they had suborned the witness to deny it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There was not the least color for allowing the jury to take it as his testimony on the stand, and the inevitable result was to get before them unsworn evidence in an exceptionally impressive and damaging way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kinne“the relevant inquiry ought always to be whether the testimony was freely given, all things considered.”
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.