Schwachter v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
237 F.2d 640 · 1956
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably United States v. Cardillo (1963), Odom v. United States (1967)
96 federal appellate · 4 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 McNally v. Hill · United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United States Bay Counties Dist Council of Carpenters · Christoffel v. United States · United States v. Bucur
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is recognized that the interstate movement of a car does not necessarily cease when the car stops and transportation of it into another state ends. The sale thereafter may be incident to the theft and transportation and so tied up with it as to constitute the final step of the continuous unlawful scheme.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no matter how strongly he may be of the opinion that the evidence has established the fact beyond a reasonable doubt”
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.