Frend v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.2d 691 · 1938
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Boos v. Barry (1988), 280 F. Supp. 938 - Landry v. Daley (1968)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 22 U.S.C. § 255A
Relies on Keller v. Potomac Electric Power Co. · Highland Farms Dairy, Inc. v. Agnew · Davis v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · United States v. Arjona · Wilson v. Eureka City
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“define and punish . . . Offenses against the Law of Nations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Boos v. Barry · Finzer v. Barry“It shall be unlawful [1] to display any flag, banner, placard, or device designed or adapted [a] to intimidate, coerce, or bring into public odium any [i] foreign government, [ii] party, or [iii] organization, or [iv] any officer or officers thereof, or [2] to bring into public disrepute [a] political, social, or economic acts, views, or purposes of any [i] foreign government, [ii] party, or [iii] organization or [3] to intimidate, coerce, harass, or bring into public disrepute [a] any officer or officers or diplomatic or consular representatives of any foreign government, or [4] to interfere with the free and safe pursuit of the duties of [a] any diplomatic or consular representatives of any foreign government, within five hundred feet of any building or premises within the District of Columbia used or occupied by any foreign government or its representative or representatives as an embassy, legation, consulate, or for other official purposes, except by, and in accordance with, a permit issued by the superintendent of police of the said District; or [5] to congregate within five hundred feet of any such building or premises, and refuse to disperse after having been ordered so to do by the police authorities of the said District.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“of protecting the residence of an ambassador or minister against invasion as well as against any other act tending to disturb the peace or dignity of the mission or of the member of a mission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finzer v. Barry
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.