Parkinson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
121 U.S. 281 · 1887
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 19 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1980 · most notably Medley (1890), Claasen (1891)
14 federal appellate · 19 district · 11 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 Wilson · Mackin 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The prosecution was under sections 5511 and 5512 of the Revised Statutes, which made the offenses charged punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not more than three years, or both. As the imprisonment may be ‘for a period longer than one year,’ the court can order that it shall be in the penitentiary. Rev. Stat. § 5541, This makes the crime ‘infamous,’ within the meaning of the Blfth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and the prosecution should have been by indictment and not by information.””
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.