Cross v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
145 U.S. 571 · 1892
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Carroll v. United States (1957), O'Donoghue v. United States (1933)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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
Relies on United States v. Sanges · Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Ball v. United States · Ex parte Bradley · McAllister 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ That hereafter, in all cases of conviction of crime the pun-, ishment of which provided by law is death, tried before any court of the United States, the final judgment of such court against the respondent shall, upon the application of the respondent, be reexamined, reversed or affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States upon a writ of error, under such rules and regulations as said court may prescribe.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That no appeal or writ of error shall hereafter be allowed from any judgment or .decree in any suit at law or in equity in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, or in the Supreme Court of any of the Territories of the United States, unless the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars. “Sec. 2. That the preceding section shall not apply to any case wherein is involved the validity of any patent or copyright, or in which is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of or an authority exercised under the United States; but in all such cases an appeal or writ of error may be brought without regard to the sum or value in dispute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have heretofore decided that this court .has no appellate jurisdiction over the judgments of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in criminal cases, or on habeas corpus, but whether or not the judgments of the Supreme Court of the District reviewable in the Court of Appeals may be ultimately reviewed in this court in such cases when the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States is drawn in question, we have as yet not been obliged to determine”
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.