United States v. Post’s Empirical Analysis
113 F. 852 · 1902
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1962
9 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Durland v. United States · United States v. Hess · Stokes 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.
““Any person who, in and for conducting, promoting, or carrying on, in any manner, by means of the post office establishment of the United States, any scheme or device mentioned in the preceding section, or any other unlawful ’ business whatsoever, shall use or assume, or request to be addressed by any * * * other than his own proper name, * * * shall, upon conviction,, be punishable as prescribed in the first section of this act.””
1 later decision 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.