Bannon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
156 U.S. 464 · 1895
Citation profile
139 federal appellate · 32 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 256 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Braverman v. United States (1942), Salinas v. United States (1997)
139 federal appellate · 32 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Wilson · Evans v. United States · Mackin v. United States · United States v. Britton · Nudd v. Burrows
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 256 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was neither necessary to aver nor prove an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If two or more persons conspire * * * to defraud the United States in any manner * * * and one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, all the parties to such conspiracy shall be liable.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Neither does it necessarily follow that, because the punishment affixed to an offense is infamous, the offense itself is thereby raised to the grade of felony.””
3 later decisions 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.