Moltke v. Gillies’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.2d 113 · 1947
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1967
8 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 461 · 50 U.S.C. § 31
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Walker v. Johnston · Waley v. Johnston · De Meerleer v. Michigan
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Q. And did Mrs. von Moltke ask you whether merely conferring with people who later turned out to be guilty of criminal acts would also make her a criminal, and guilty of criminal acts? A. I do not just recall that particular question. It is quite possible.” .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That if there is a group of people in a 'Rum’ plan who violate the law, and another person is there and the person doesn’t know the people who are planning the violation and doesn’t know what is going on, but still it seemed after two years this plan is carried out, in the law the man who was present becomes . . . the person nevertheless is guilty of conspiracy. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“right to be represented by counsel at the trial of this cause,”
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.