United States v. Shapiro’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.2d 891 · 1940
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably United States v. Kessi (1989), Verdugo v. United States (1968)
16 federal appellate · 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 18 U.S.C. § 246
Relies on United States v. Chase · United States v. Weitzel · United States v. Harris · Piquett v. United States · Susnjar 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever shall rescue or attempt to rescue, from the custody of any officer or person lawfully assisting him, any person arrested upon a warrant or other process issued under the provisions of any law of the United states, or shall, directly or indirectly, aid, abet, or assist any person so arrested to escape from the custody of such officer or other person, or shall harbor or conceal any person for whose arrest a warrant or process has been so issued, so as to prevent his discovery and arrest, after notice or knowledge of the fact that a warrant or process has been issued for the apprehension of such person, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever harbors or conceals any person for whose arrest a warrant * * * has been issued under the provisions of any law of the United States, so as to prevent his discovery and arrest, after notice or knowledge of the fact that a warrant * * * has been issued * * * shall be fined. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Foy“means to hide, secrete, or keep out of sight. To”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. SLOAN
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.