Athanasaw v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
227 U.S. 326 · 1913
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 11 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2008 · most notably Caminetti v. United States (1917), Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. (1981)
80 federal appellate · 11 district · 9 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
Relies on Paul v. Virginia · United States v. Harris · Employers' Liability Cases · Crandall v. State of Nevada · Mayor Aldermen Commonalty New York v. George Miln
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The language of the statute is directed against the transportation ‘of any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose * * ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The term ‘debauchery,’ as used in this statute, has an idea of sexual immorality ; that is, it has the idea of a life which will lead eventually or tends to lead to sexual immorality, not necessarily drunkenness or immorality; but here it leads to the question in this case as to whether or not the influences in which this girl was surrounded, by the employment which they called her to, did not tend to induce her to give herself up to a condition of debauchery which eventually, necessarily, and naturally would lead to a course of immorality sexually.””
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.