Sinclair v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The mere suspicion that he, his family, and friends are being subjected to surveillance by such persons is enough to destroy the equilibrium of the average juror and render impossiblé the exercise of calm judgment upon patient consideration.”
• “The mere suspicion that he, his family, and friends are being subjected to surveillance by such persons is enough to destroy the equi‐ librium of the average juror and render impossible the exer‐ cise of calm judgment upon patient consideration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

93 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Turner v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1965-01-18· cited 1,063×
• Clark v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1933-03-13· cited 738×
• Green v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-03-31· cited 426×
• Nye v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1941-04-14· cited 357×
• William Anthony Brooks v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-07-23· cited 282×
• United States v. Barnett
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-08· cited 198×
• Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-11-04· cited 189×
• People v. Ross
  California Supreme Court· 1967-07-20· cited 165×
• Robert v. Bruce v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-09-06· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. DiStasio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1936-04-07· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-04· cited 79×
• State v. Lane
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1979-12-12· cited 78×
• United States v. Charles Tashjian, United States of America v. James Campbell
  First Circuit· 1981-09-30· cited 73×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-12· cited 70×
• Krik v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-08-31· cited 56×
• Dolan v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-11-28· cited 53×
• Harriet Dow, Administratrix of the Estate of Paul Dow, Deceased v. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1955-06-13· cited 44×
• United States v. Eustaquio C. Deases
  Tenth Circuit· 1990-11-01· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-04-15· cited 38×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cooke v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1925-04-13· cited 880×
• Ex Parte Terry
  Supreme Court· 1888-11-12· cited 567×