Culp v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.2d 93 · 1942
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2004 · most notably Screws v. United States (1945), United States v. Wood (1961)
44 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Allen v. United States · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · United States v. Classic · United States v. Cruikshank · Strauder v. West Virginia
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibits any state from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that ‘the Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.’ It is true that the Fourteenth Amendment added nothing to the rights of one citizen or inhabitant of the United States as against another. It furnished ‘an additional guaranty against any encroachment by the States upon the fundamental rights which belong to every citizen as a member of society.’ United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 , 554, 23 L.Ed. 588 . The right to the enjoyment of life and liberty and the right to acquire and possess property are fundamental rights of the citizens of the several states and are not dependent upon the Constitution of the United States or the Federal Government for their existence. Hodges v. United States, 203 U.S. 1 , 15, 27 S.Ct. 6 , 51 L.Ed. 65 . The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, however, proscribed state action which deprives a person of his fundamental rights without due process of law. The words of the Amendment are prohibitory, ‘but they contain a necessary implication of a positive immunity, or right.’ * * * Strau-der v. [State of] West Virginia, supra, 100 U.S. [303] at page 310, [ 25 L.Ed. 664 ] ; United States v. Reese, 92 U.S. 214 , 217, 23 L.Ed. 563 . The state”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We do not doubt that the immunity of an inhabitant of the United States from a deprivation of life, liberty, or property by state action not amounting to due process of law is an immunity secured and protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. * * “It is our opinion that a state law enforcement officer who, under color of state law, willfully and without cause, arrests and imprisons an inhabitant of the United States for the purpose of extortion, deprives him of a right, privilege, and immunity secured and protected by the Constitution of the United States * 28”
2 later decisions 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.