Butterfield v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
215 F.2d 320 · 1954
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2007
10 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2311 (Anti Car Theft Act of 1992) · 18 U.S.C. § 751 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Daugherty · Mills v. Hunter · Bledsoe v. Johnston · Brown v. Hunter
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As respects the use of the phrase `consecutively with' rather than `consecutively to' it seems to us that for all practical purposes one manner of putting it is as clear as the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henry v. Madigan
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.