Gara v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 38 · 1949
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1987 · most notably Toussie v. United States (1970), United States v. Spock (1969)
32 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Schneider v. State · Terminiello v. Chicago · Reynolds v. States · Schenck 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that appellant sincerely believed that it was his Christian duty to oppose registration does not absolve him from his violation of the statute. The rights of religion are not beyond limitation. Davis v. Beason, 133 U.S. 333 , 10 S.Ct. 299 , 33 L.Ed. 637 ; Prince v. [Commonwealth of] Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158, 166 , 64 S.Ct. 438 , 88 L.Ed. 645 . The guaranty of freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights is not a guaranty of immunity for violation of law. Baxley v. United States, 4 Cir., 134 F.2d 937 ; Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145 , 25 L.Ed. 244 .” 178 F.2d at page 40 .”
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.