Crespo v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
151 F.2d 44 · 1945
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Oddo v. United States (1949), United States v. Fox (1970)
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Caminetti v. United States · Downes v. Bidwell · Morgan v. Devine · Puerto Rico v. Shell Co. · Ebeling v. Morgan
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applicable to the District of Columbia, the territories and possessions of the United States, including the Panama Canal Zone, without regard to the crossing of district, territorial, or state lines, and applied] within the territories to the same extent as [it] applied] in cases outside of the territories in interstate or foreign commerce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a territory within the meaning of the Act”
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.