Statler v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
157 U.S. 277 · 1895
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Zuniga v. State (2004), O'Connell v. United States (1920)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 St. Clair v. United States · Patterson v. United States · 3 Wheel. Cr. Cas. 293 - Commonwealth v. Judd · State v. . Morris
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words (of a verdict) being the finding of lay people need not be framed under the strict rules of pleading, or after any technical form. Any words which convey the idea to the common understanding will be adequate. And all fair intendments will be made to support it. To say, therefore, that the defendant is ‘guilty’ or guilty of an offense named, which is less than the whole alleged, is sufficient without adding ‘as charged in the indictment,’ for the latter will be supplied by construction. So likewise a general finding of guilty will be interpreted as guilty of all that the indictment well alleges. The verdict must be construed as whole, not in separate parts.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[i]f the jury give a verdict of the whole issue and of more, . . . that which is more is surplusage and shall not stay judgment, for ` utile per inutile non vitiatur. '”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“striking them from the verdict leaves it, in all respects complete, and responsive to the charge”
2 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.