Post v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
161 U.S. 583 · 1896
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 28 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably Edwin Hale v. William Henkel (1906), Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States (1931)
32 federal appellate · 28 district · 8 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 Logan v. United States · In re Bonner · Caha v. United States · Virginia v. Paul · Cook v. United States
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“criminal proceedings cannot be said to be brought or instituted until a formal charge is openly made against the accused, either by indictment presented or information filed in court ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Criminal proceedings cannot be said to be brought or instituted until a formal charge is openly made against the accused, either by infiled in court, or, at the least, by complaint before a magistrate. [citations omitted]. The submission of a bill of indictment by the attorney for the government to the grand jury, and the examination of witnesses before them, are both in secret, and are no part of the criminal proceedings against the accused, but are merely to assist the grand jury in determining whether such proceedings shall be commenced; the grand jury may ignore the bill, and decline to find any indictment; and it cannot be known whether any proceedings will be instituted against the accused until an indictment against him is presented in open court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This provision does not affect the authority of the grand jury for the district sitting at any place at which the court is appointed to be held to present indictments for offenses committed anywhere within the district It only requires the trial to be had and writs and recognizances to be returned in the division in which the offense is committed.- The finding of the indictment is no part of the trial.””
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.