United States v. Maher’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1976
9 federal appellate · 1 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. § 455 · 28 U.S.C. § 507
Relies on United States v. Vasilick
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any justice or judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any case in which he has a substantial interest, has been of counsel, is or has been a material witness, or is so related to or connected with any party or his attorney as to render it improper, in his opinion, for him to sit on the trial, appeal, or other proceeding therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Except as otherwise provided by law, each United States attorney, within his district, shall— “(1) prosecute for all offenses against the United States; * * * ” 28 U.S.C. § 547 (Supp. II, 1965-1966).”
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.