Christopher Strassheim v. Milton Daily’s Empirical Analysis
221 U.S. 280 · 1911
Citation profile
195 federal appellate · 29 district · 302 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 673 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Travelers Health Ass'n v. Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission (1950), Hyde v. United States (1912)
195 federal appellate · 29 district · 302 state decisions — followed in 41 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 Swift Company v. United States · American Banana Company v. United Fruit Company · Roberts v. Reilly · Hyatt v. People ex rel. Corkran
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 673 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Acts done outside a jurisdiction, but intended to produce and producing detrimental effects within it, justify a State in punishing the cause of the harm as if he had been present at the effect, if the State should succeed in getting him within its power.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e think it plain that the criminal need not do within the State every act necessary to complete the crime. If he does there an overt act which is and is intended to be a material step toward accomplishing the crime, and then absents himself from the State and does the rest elsewhere, he becomes a fugitive from justice when the crime is complete....”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This is an appeal from an order on habeas corpus discharging the respondent, Daily, from custody under a warrant of the Governor of Illinois directing his extradition to Michigan as a fugitive from justice from that State. Daily, it appears, had been indicted in Michigan for bribery and also for obtaining money from the State by false pretenses, and a requisition had been issued to which the warrant of the Governor of Illinois was the response. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. McDermott
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.