Benjamin v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.2d 269 · 1949
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1987
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 4161 · 18 U.S.C. § 710 · 18 U.S.C. § 711
Relies on McNally v. Hill · Brewster v. Gage · Hassett v. Welch · Cox v. Hart · Claridge Apartments Co. v. Commissioner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . a statute is not rendered retroactive merely because the facts or requisites upon which its subsequent action depends are drawn from a time antecedent to its enactment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lohf v. Casey
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.