United States v. Compagna’s Empirical Analysis
146 F.2d 524 · 1944
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1992 · most notably United States v. United States Gypsum Co. (1948), Carbo v. United States (1963)
135 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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 Mattox v. United States · Fillippon v. Albion Vein Slate Co. · United States v. Cohen · Van Riper v. United States · Nick 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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile lapses should be closely scrutinized, when it appears with certainty that no harm has been done, it would be the merest pedantry to insist upon procedural regularity. .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The victims’ fears originated from acquaintance with the general disorders and violence which had accompanied other strikes. As such, it was part of what everybody knows, and I cannot see how it could have prejudiced the accused with the jury. Indeed it was entirely ■proper for the jury to infer that the accused expected to play upon precisely such fears, when Bioff ■threatened to call strikes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If these were the facts, the business was interstate as matter of law, and the question should not have been submitted to the jury; and since nobody contested the facts, but only their legal effect, it was unnecessary for the judge to say anything on the issue.”
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.