Cella Commission Co. v. Bohlinger’s Empirical Analysis
147 F. 419 · 1906
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1976
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · United States v. Reese · Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Goldey v. Morning News · Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are therefore directly called upon to decide whether a penal statute, which is in general language broad enough to cover wrongful acts without as well as within the constitutional jurisdiction, can be limited by judicial construction so as to make it operate only on that which Congress may rightfully prohibit and punish. For this purpose, we must take these sections of the statute as they are. We are not able to reject a part which is unconstitutional, and retain the remainder, because it is not possible to separate that which is unconstitutional, if there be any such, from that which is not. The proposed effect is not to be attained by striking out or disregarding words that are.in the section, but by inserting those that are not now there. Each of the sections must stand as a whole or fall altogether. The language is plain. There is no room for construction, unless it be as to the.effect of the Constitution. The question, then, to be determined, is whether we can introduce words of .limitation into a penal statute so as to make it specific, when, as expressed, it is general only.””
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.