Caminetti v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
242 U.S. 470 · 1917
Citation profile
2,108 federal appellate · 362 district · 527 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,300 later decisions (158 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Bruton v. United States (1968), United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. (1989)
2,108 federal appellate · 362 district · 527 state decisions — followed in 39 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHays v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Gibbons v. Ogden · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Brown v. Walker
Cited together with United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Holmgren v. United States · Glasser v. United States · Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc.
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 5,300 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the sole function of the courts is to enforce it according to its terms.'”
156 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the authority of Congress to keep the channels of interstate commerce free from immoral and injurious uses has been frequently sustained....”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no absolute rule of law preventing convictions on the testimony of accomplices if juries believe them.”
11 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.