United States v. Sylvanus’s Empirical Analysis
192 F.2d 96 · 1951
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably United States v. Brien (1980), United States v. Keane (1975)
65 federal appellate · 1 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 United States v. Johnson · Badders v. United States · Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Society · Feldman v. United States · United States v. Manton
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“invalidate, impair, or supersede any law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e conclude, then, that it was not the intent of the Congress, by its passage of the McCarran Act, so [sic] surrender control of the use of the mails or to cease to authorize the federal courts to determine whether the mails have been utilized in attempted execution of a scheme to defraud and that the district court, by entertaining jurisdiction, did not interfere with regulation of the insurance company by the state but properly overruled the motions to dismiss the indictment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question was whether, upon the whole record, the representations were fraudulently made, and this was a question for the jury.”
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.