United States v. Prochaska’s Empirical Analysis
222 F.2d 1 · 1955
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably State v. Schweppe (1975), United States v. Malik (1994)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 876
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Whoever transmits in interstate commerce any communication containing any demand or request for a ransom or reward for the release of any kidnapped person, shall be fined not more than $5,-000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. “(b) Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. “(e) Whoever transmits in interstate commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person, of another, shall bo fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. “(d) Whoever, with intent to extort from any .person, firm, association, or corporation, ■ any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate commerce any communication containing any threat to injure the property or - reputation of tbe addressee or. of another .or the reputation of a deceased person or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Okay, Maurie, this is it, get it and get it straight because you have only one chance. We want $10,000.00 cash in 10's and 20’s to be placed by you in a place designated by us in our next letter. You have 5 to 7 days. If you should wish to contact us please do so by advertising under personals in the Tribune. Please Maurie, make it easy on yourself by cooperating fully.” [ 222 F.2d at 2 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . whether the essential significance of the language used by the defendant necessarily constituted a threat to injure the person of Frank; whether the actual meaning of the language, plus its necessary suggested implications, was such as reasonably to instill in him the actual apprehension of impending bodily harm.””
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.