Mahaffey v. Hudspeth’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.2d 940 · 1942
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably United States v. Gallagher (1950), Stoppelli v. United States (1950)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 103 · 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Hagner v. United States · Patton v. United States · Rosecrans v. United States · United States v. Lotsch · Provident Life Trust Co of Philadelphia v. Mercer County Ky
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The primary meaning of the preposition ‘through’ is from end to end, or from side to side, or from one surface or limit to the other surface or limit.””
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.