Chandler v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
171 F.2d 921 · 1948
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 11 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably Reid v. Covert (1957), United States Ex Rel. Toth v. Quarles (1955)
46 federal appellate · 11 district · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1 · 18 U.S.C. § 2381 · 18 U.S.C. § 3041 · 18 U.S.C. § 3192 · 18 U.S.C. § 3238 · 18 U.S.C. § 591 · 28 U.S.C. § 102
Relies on Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Hirabayashi v. United States · Schenck v. United States · Ker v. People of the State of Illinois · Ford 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The trial of all offenses begun or committed upon the high seas, or elsewhere out of the jurisdiction of any particular State or district, shall be in the district where the offender is found, or into which he is first brought.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the type of criminal statute which is properly presumed to have no extraterritorial application in the absence of statutory language indicating a contrary intent.”
2 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.