Ex Parte De Bara’s Empirical Analysis
179 U.S. 316 · 1900
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1979 · most notably Blockburger v. United States (1932), Carter v. McClaughry (1902)
68 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Snow · Henry · Manhattan Bank of Memphis v. Walker
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may express its views of the criminality of a defendant . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Tfie act (section 5480) forbids, not the general use of the post office for the purpose of carrying out a fraudulent scheme or device, but the putting in the. post office of a letter or packet, or the taking out of such a letter or paeket from the post office in furtherance of such a scheme. Each letter so taken out or put in constitutes a separate and distinct violation of the act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under the present statute three separate offenses, committed in the same six months, may be joined, but not more, and when joined there is to be a single sentence for all.””
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.