Henry’s Empirical Analysis
123 U.S. 372 · 1887
Citation profile
111 federal appellate · 11 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2002 · most notably Blockburger v. United States (1932), Durland v. United States (1896)
111 federal appellate · 11 district · 16 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 Snow
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Congress has thought it necessary to provide, by statute, for the joinder of several charges against the same person for the same act or transaction, or for two or more acts or transactions of the same class of crimes or offenses iti one indictment in several counts, but no provision is made for several judgments on one record.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Each letter so ... put in constitutes a separate and distinctive violation of the act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“place any letter or packet in any post office,”
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.