People v. Strauch’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 1988 · most notably United States v. Galiffa (1984), State v. La Fera (1961)
6 federal appellate · 21 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 Spies v. People · Abend v. Endowment Fund Com. of McKendree College · Crocker v. People · Collins v. People
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The gist of the offense is the combination or confederacy for the illegal purpose of preventing competition in the letting of the contract in question. If Andrew A. Strauch innocently introduced his son to Hughes, the mere fact that these parties, as a result of such acquaintance, might ultimately enter into a conspiracy would not make Andrew A. Strauch a party thereto, even though his act in introducing the parties might be the means of bringing about the ultimate conspiracy. The criminality of his act in such case would necessarily depend upon the guilty intention or purpose he had in view in thus bringing the parties into communication with each other. If [Andrew Strauch] did the act ... with the unlawful purpose [of bringing the parties into an unlawful agreement with each other then] the conclusion ... that he would be guilty as a party to such conspiracy appears to be the necessary legal result....”
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.