Elliott v. Hudspeth’s Empirical Analysis
110 F.2d 389 · 1940
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1985
15 federal appellate ·
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 33 U.S.C. § 851 (Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998)
Relies on United States v. Barnow · Lámar v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute defines two separate and distinct offenses, one assuming and pretending to be an officer or employee. acting under authority of the United States and taking it upon himself to act as such, the other, in such pretended character demanding or obtaining any money, paper, document, or other valuable thing.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Graham v. Squier
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.