Zerbst v. McPike’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.2d 253 · 1938
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Thomas v. Brewer (1991), Strand v. Schmittroth (1957)
56 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 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 Ponzi v. Fessenden · Covell v. Heyman · Ableman v. Booth
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a complete surrender of the prior jurisdiction”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Gill · Gillman v. Saxby“federal sentence could begin to run only from 'the date on which [the defendant] is received at the penitentiary, reformatory or jail for service of said sentence'”
2 later decisions 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.