Badders v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
240 U.S. 391 · 1916
Citation profile
404 federal appellate · 32 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 687 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Blockburger v. United States (1932), Furman v. Georgia (1972)
404 federal appellate · 32 district · 27 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 Swift Company v. United States · Ex parte Jackson · Central Vermont Railway Company v. Mary Theresa White L · Lottery Case
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 687 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he overt act of putting a letter into the post office of the United States is a matter that Congress may regulate.”
14 later decisions 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.