Hall v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
168 U.S. 632 · 1898
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008 · most notably United States v. Miller (1985), United States v. Ballard (1944)
66 federal appellate · 6 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 Goode v. United States · Montgomery v. United States · United States v. Wight
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Without this averment the third count contains every fact necessary to he proved in order to constitute an offense under the second clause of the statute, and the evidence in the case is sufficient to authorize the defendant’s conviction upon that count. * * * Because the pleader unnecessarily made an averment of a totally immaterial fact, the government was not therefore bound to prove- it in order to sustain a conviction. For this reason there was ño fatal variance between the offense set forth in the indictment and the proof.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, embezzles any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein entrusted to him or which comes into his possession intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or delivered by any carrier, messenger, agent, or other person employed in any department of the Postal Service, or forwarded through or delivered from any post office or station thereof established by authority of the Postmaster General or of the Postal Service; or steals, abstracts, or removes from any such letter, package, bag, or mail, any article or thing contained therein, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all the necessary averments to constitute an offense created by the statute,”
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.