Stone v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
167 U.S. 178 · 1897
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 66 district · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 387 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Helvering v. Mitchell (1938), United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms (1984)
135 federal appellate · 66 district · 82 state decisions — followed in 24 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Coffey v. United States · Bolles Wooden Ware Co v. United States · Ball 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 387 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a certain intent must be proved to support the indictment, which need not be proved to support the civil action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he information (for forfeiture) is founded on §§ 3257, 3450 and 3453; and there is no question, on the averments in the answer, that the fraudulent acts and attempts and intents to defraud, alleged in the prior criminal information, and covered by the verdict and judgment of acquittal, embraced all of the acts, attempts and intents averred in the information in this suit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In our opinion, tlie record of the criminal proceedings in the court in Idaho was not evidence to establish or disprove any of the material -facts involved in the civil action.””
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.