Ware v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
154 F. 577 · 1907
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1997 · most notably Hyde v. United States (1912), United States v. Kissel (1910)
12 federal appellate · 4 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 Callan v. Wilson · Clune v. United States · Dealy v. United States · United States v. Britton · City of Savannah v. Martin
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie offense denounced by section 5440 is not the mere formation, but the existence, of the conspiracy and its execution; and if, by the agreement or by the joint assent of the defendant and one or more other persons within the three years, the unlawful scheme of the conspiracy is to be prosecuted, and an overt act is subsequently done to carry it into execution, the mere fact that the same parties had conspired and had wrought to accomplish the same or a like purpose more than three years before the filing of the indictment ought not to constitute, and does not constitute, a defense to the charge of the conspiracy within the three years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““This offense does not consist of both the conspiracy and the acts done to effect the object of the conspiracy, but of the conspiracy alone. The provision of the statute that there must be an act done to effect the object of rite conspiracy merely affords a locus penitential, so that before the act is done either one or all of the parties may abandon their design, and thus avoid the penalty prescribed by the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Tiie offense under section 5440 is the conspiracy, not the conspiracy and the overt 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.