United States v. Oley’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1999
2 federal appellate · 7 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 United States v. Gouled · United States v. Herzig · United States v. Perlman · United States v. Lydecker
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . while it might be regarded as inhuman and unnatural on the part of a wife to surrender her husband to the authorities and contrary to the instincts of human beings to do so, nevertheless wives can be convicted of illegally harboring their husbands.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Hill · SLOAN
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.