Snow’s Empirical Analysis
120 U.S. 274 · 1887
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 23 district · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 413 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Blockburger v. United States (1932), Fay v. Noia (1963)
119 federal appellate · 23 district · 141 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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 Lange · Wilson · Ex Parte Milligan · Bigelow
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 413 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'continuing offence . . . [that] can be committed but once, for the purposes of indictment or prosecution, prior to the time the prosecution is instituted.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“if any male person ... cohabits with more than one woman, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,”
2 later decisions 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.