Ex parte Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
155 F. 663 · 1907
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1943
3 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Rosen v. United States · Cochran v. United States · Evans v. United States · Dunbar v. United States · Hyde v. Shine
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The criterion for judging the sufficiency of indictments is whether the words employed make the charge clear to the ‘common understanding.’ Dunbar v. U. S., 156 U. S. 185 , 15 S. Ct. 325 , 39 L. Ed. 390 . ‘The object of criminal proceedings is to convict the guilty, as well as to shield the innocent, and no impracticable standards of particularity should be set up whereby the government may be entrapped into making allegations which it would be impossible to prove.’ Evans v. United States, 153 U. S. 584 , 591, 14 S. Ct. 934 , 937, 38 L. Ed. 830 . ‘Pew indictments * * * are so skillfully drawn as to be beyond the hypereriticism of astute counsel, few which might not be made more definite by additional allegations; but the true test is not whether it might possibly have been made'more certain, but whether it contains every element of the offense intended to be charged, and sufficiently apprises the defendant of 'what he must be prepared to meet, and, in ease other proceedings are taken against him for a similar offense, whether the record shows with accuracy to what extent he may plead a former acquittal or conviction.’ Cochran v. United States, 157 U. S. 286 , 290, 15 S. Ct. 628 , 630, 39 L. Ed. 704 . Reasonable implications from facts' clearly charged may be indulged in ascertaining the true meaning of an indictment. Rosen v. United States, 161 U. S. 30 , 33, 16 S. Ct. 434 , 40 L. Ed. 606 ; Clement v. United States, 79 C. C. A. 243 , 149 F. 305 . Such are the more recent exp”
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.