Christianson v. Zerbst’s Empirical Analysis
89 F.2d 40 · 1937
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 1975 · most notably Hyser v. Reed (1963), Story v. Rives (1938)
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 714
Relies on United States Vajtauer v. Commissioner of Immigration at Port of New York · Anderson v. Corall · Chin Yow v. United States · United States Tisi v. Tod · United States ex rel. Rowe v. Nicholson
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Persons convicted of an offense against the United States shall be committed, for such terms of imprisonment as the court may direct, to the custody of the Attorney General of the United States or his authorized representative, who shall designate the places of confinement where the sentences shall be served.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hyser v. Reed
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.