Ex parte Falls’s Empirical Analysis
251 F. 415 · 1918
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Ex Parte Milligan · In re Grimley · Kurtz v. Moffitt · Ex parte Gerlach · Runkle v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words ‘in the field’ do not refer to land only, but to any place, whether on land or water, apart from permanent cantonments or fortifications, where military operations are being conducted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Jochen
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.