United States v. Kissel’s Empirical Analysis
218 U.S. 601 · 1910
Citation profile
415 federal appellate · 61 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 797 later decisions (75 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Pinkerton v. United States (1946), United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (1940)
415 federal appellate · 61 district · 90 state decisions — followed in 17 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 United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Northern Securities Company v. United States · Ex Parte Nielsen · Williamson v. United States · Pettibone 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 797 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the plot contemplates bringing to pass a continuous result that will not continue without the continuous co-operation of the conspirators to keep it up, and there is such continuous co-operation, it is a perversion of natural thought and of natural language to call such continuous co-operation a cinematographic series of distinct conspiracies, rather than to call it a single one.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e first will consider whether a conspiracy can have continuance in time.”
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.