Schick v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
195 U.S. 65 · 1904
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 31 district · 177 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 444 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974), Duncan v. State of Louisiana (1968)
100 federal appellate · 31 district · 177 state decisions — followed in 33 states
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 Boyd v. United States · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Huntington v. Attrill · John Den James Murray and John Kayser v. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company John Den James B Murray et al. · Capital Traction Co. v. Hof
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 444 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a ... trial, by an impartial jury....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““3. To produce witnesses on his behalf and to be confronted with the witnesses against him, in the presence of the court, except that where the charge has been preliminarily examined before a committing magistrate and the testimony taken down by question and answer in the presence of the defendant, who has, either in person or by counsel, cross-examined or had an opportunity to cross-examine the witness; or where the testimony of a witness on the part of the people, who is unable to give security for his appearance, has been taken conditionally in the like manner in the presence of the defendant, who has, either in person or by counsel, cross-examined or had an opportunity to cross-examine the witness, the deposition of such witness may be read, upon its being satisfactorily shown to the court that he is dead or insane, or cannot with due diligence be found within the state. ...””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Blackstone's Commentaries are accepted as the most satisfactory exposition of the common law of England. At the time of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, it had been published about twenty years, and it has been said that more copies of the work had been sold in this country than in England; so that undoubtedly, the framers of the 32 Constitution were familiar with it.”
5 later decisions 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.