Streep v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
160 U.S. 128 · 1895
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably McNally v. United States (1987), Arthur Appleyard v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1906)
84 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 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 United States v. Rauscher · Roberts v. Reilly · United States v. Smith
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to constitute a fleeing from justice, it is not necessary that the course of justice should have been put in operation by the presentment of an indictment by a grand jury, or by the filing of an information by the attorney for the government, or by the making of a complaint before a magistrate. It is sufficient that there is a flight with the intention of avoiding being prosecuted, whether a prosecution has or has not been actually begun.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“.‘“And'there dan be no that, in this respect, section 1045 of the Revised Statutes .must receive the same construction that has been given to section 5278 by this court, saying: ‘To be a fugitive from justice, in the sense of the act of congress regulating the subject under consideration, it is not necessary that the party Charged should have left the State in which the crime is alleged to have been committed, after an indictment found, or for the purpose of avoiding a prosecution anticipated or begun, but simply that having, within a state, committed that which by its laws constitutes a crime, when he is sought to be subjected to its criminal process, to answer for his offenses, he has left its jurisdiction, and is found within the territory of another." Roberts v. Reilly, 116 U.S. 80 , 97, 6 S.Ct. 291 [ 29 L.Ed. 544 ].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is quite clear that any person who takes himself out of the jurisdiction, with the intention of avoiding being brought to justice for a particular offense, can have no benefit of the [statute of] limitation[s]....”
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.