Hopper v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.2d 181 · 1943
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1988 · most notably Western Pac Corp v. Western Pac R Co Metzger (1953), Elwert v. United States (1956)
43 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Berger v. United States · Hagner v. United States · Selective Draft Law Cases · Dunbar v. United States · O'Connell 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Grand Jurors of the United States, impaneled, sworn, and charged at the term aforesaid, of the Court aforesaid, on their oath present, that Robert Earl Hopper, having theretofore registered under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, on or about the 22nd day of June, A.D. 1941, and within the said District of Arizona, did knowingly, wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously fail and neglect to perform the duty required of him under and in the execution of said Act, and. the rules and regulations made pursuant thereto, that is to say, that the said defendant, Robert Earl Hopper, having been theretofore classified by his local draft board at Prescott, Arizona, as a conscientious objector, and found fit for general service, did then and there, knowingly, wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously fail and neglect to report as a conscientious objector for civilian work of national importance when notified so to do -by his local draft board; contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the United States of America.” Footnote, 142 F. at page 184.”
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.