United States v. Clara Holte’s Empirical Analysis
236 U.S. 140 · 1915
Citation profile
174 federal appellate · 9 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 280 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Caminetti v. United States (1917), Iannelli v. United States (1975)
174 federal appellate · 9 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Gavieres v. United States · Heike v. United States · Holman Drew v. Harry Kendall Thaw · Bennett 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 280 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“little reason for not treating the preliminary agreement as a conspiracy that the law can reach, if we abandon the illusion that the woman always is the victim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]lainly a person may conspire for the commission of a crime by a third person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As the defendant is the woman, the District Court sustained a demurrer on the ground that although the offence could not be committed without her she was no party to it but only the victim. The single question is whether that ruling is right. We do not have to consider what would be necessary to constitute the substantive crime under the act of 1910 [the Mann Act], or what evidence would be required to convict a woman under an indictment like this, but only to decide whether it is impossible for the transported woman to be guilty of a crime in conspiring as alleged.””
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.