Agnew v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
165 U.S. 36 · 1897
Citation profile
496 federal appellate · 73 district · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 835 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Sandstrom v. Montana (1979), Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret (1955)
496 federal appellate · 73 district · 120 state decisions — followed in 35 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 Grand Trunk Ry Co of Canada v. Ives · Coffin v. United States · United States v. Gale · Coffin 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 835 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law presumes that every man intends the legitimate consequence of his own acts.””
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The underlying vice in the foregoing charge of the court is in the assumption that in respect of the alibi the burden of proof ‘by a preponder- anee of evidence, that is, by the greater and superior evidence,’ shifted to .the defendant. It loses sight of the fundamental rule in criminal procedure that the defendant is presumed to be innocent of the offense with which he is charged; that this is a continuing presumption which attends him like a guarding spirit throughout the ordeal of his trial, and imposes upon the prosecution the burden of overcoming such presumption by such weight of evidence as will satisfy the minds of the triers beyond a reasonable doubt of the defendant’s guilt.” (Emphasis ours.)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made to represent what is not true or does not exist. . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.