United States v. Cramer’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.2d 888 · 1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1994
3 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1
Relies on McNabb v. United States · Nash v. United States · Quirin Haupt Kerling Burger Heinck Thiel Neubauer United States Quirin v. Cox Usa 6 · Mayo v. United States · Ex Parte Bollman and Ex Parte Swartwout
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe in short that no more need be laid for an overt act of treason than for an overt act of conspiracy . . . Hence we hold the overt acts relied on were sufficient to be submitted to the jury, even though they perhaps may have appeared as innocent on their face.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Be at the Grand Central station tonight at 8 o’clock, the upper platform near the information booth, Franz from Chicago has come into town and wants to see you; don’t fail to be there.”
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.