United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
202 F.2d 621 · 1953
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Smith v. United States (1966), Collins v. M
48 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 601
Relies on Langnes v. Green · United States v. Mack · The Steamship Styria v. James L Morgan · Continental Casualty Co. 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he bond is a contract between the surety and the government that if the latter will release the principal from custody the surety will undertake that the principal will appear personally at any specified time and place to answer.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(2) Setting Aside. The court may direct that a forfeiture be set aside, upon such conditions as the court may impose, if it appears that justice does not require the enforcement of the forfeiture.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his court should not substitute its discretion for that of the district court”
3 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.