Coy v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.2d 818 · 1943
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1971
13 federal appellate ·
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 · McNally v. Hill · In re Bonner · Holiday v. Johnston · King 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This leaves as the only question for our consideration the sentence on count one imposed for violation of § 588b(a). The petitioner was charged with violation of the statute; the jury found him guilty; and the sentence pronounced for the offense was within the power of the court to impose. It was for no greater period than that warranted by the offense or provided for by law. Justice and common sense alike would appear to require that it be upheld.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Coy
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.