Virgin Islands v. Brodhurst’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.2d 636 · 1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2014
2 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 48 U.S.C. § 1405
Relies on Schneider v. State · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · Bridges v. State of California Times-Mirror Co · Balzac v. People of Porto Rico · Ex parte Hudgings
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the mass left the Court Room last "Wednesday after having heard the decision of the ease of Harry Beatty by Judge Moore, there were cries of discontent and indignation. “ ‘What have we left?’, they said. ‘Justice even is against us’. We áre the masses of this island but we are trampled under heels of the Hitlerites and bribe and injustice rule out reason. . . . “. . . Here in St. Croix the trend is Justice versus poverty.’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"5. Inaccurate Publication. The wilful publication of any false or grossly inaccurate report of judicial proceedings: Provided, however, That the publication of any true and fair report of any judicial proceeding shall not be punishable as a contempt.””
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.