United States v. Bathgate’s Empirical Analysis
246 U.S. 220 · 1918
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 7 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably Reynolds v. Sims (1964), United States v. Classic (1941)
70 federal appellate · 7 district · 20 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 Logan v. United States · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Ex parte Siebold · Motes v. United States · In re Quarles
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 19, Criminal Code, of course, now has the same- meaning as when first enacted . . . and considering the policy of Congress not to. interfere with elections within a State except by clear and specific provisions, together with the rule respecting construction of criminal statutes, wé cannot think it was intended to apply to conspiracies to bribe voters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There can be no constructive offenses, and before a man can be punished his case must be plainly and unmistakably within the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 19 of the Criminal Code, of course, now has the same meaning as when enacted as section 6, Act of May, 1870.””
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.