United States v. Union Supply Co.’s Empirical Analysis
215 U.S. 50 · 1909
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2008 · most notably Weems v. United States (1910), United States v. Dotterweich (1943)
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Hurtado v. People of the State of California · United States ex rel. Attorney General of the United States v. Delaware & Hudson Co. · Bank of Augusta v. Earle · United States v. Pridgeon · New York Central Hudson River Railroad Company 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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“free our minds from the notion that criminal statutes must be construed by some artificial and conventional rule * * *,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where corporations are as much within the mischief aimed at by a penal statute and as capable of willful broaches of the law as individuals, the si.atute will not, if it can be reasonably interpreted a« including corporations, be interpreted as excluding them.””
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.