United States v. Loftis’s Empirical Analysis
12 F. 671 · 1882
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1966
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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
Relies on Ex parte Jackson
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.
““ * » * Speaking generally, this letter is a writing; but to bring it within this clause of the statute it must be also a ‘publication.’ This word ‘writing’ occurs in an enumeration of things — books, pamphlets, pictures, prints, and papers — which ex vi termini are prima facie publications. The general phrase with which the enumeration ends, ‘or other publication of an indecent character,’ inrpliedly asserts that the things before edumerated are publications. The expression ‘John and James and other men’ is one in which, by a necessary implication, it is asserted that John and James are men.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.