Biddinger v. Commissioner of Police’s Empirical Analysis
245 U.S. 128 · 1917
Citation profile
182 federal appellate · 29 district · 294 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 586 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Michigan v. Doran (1978), Holloway v. Florida (1980)
182 federal appellate · 29 district · 294 state decisions — followed in 40 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 Roberts v. Reilly · Charlton v. Kelly · United States v. Cook · Arthur Appleyard v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 586 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute of limitations is a defense and must be asserted on the trial by the defendant in criminal cases.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Its design was and is, in effect, to eliminate ... the boundaries of States, so that each may reach out and bring to speedy trial offenders against its laws from any part of the land.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.””
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.