Babb v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
252 F.2d 702 · 1958
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2019
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 545 · 19 U.S.C. § 1459 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1483 · 19 U.S.C. § 1484 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 28 U.S.C. § 2412
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Brown v. Maryland · Egan v. United States · Babb v. United States · Yarborough 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.
“If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is nothing to indicate that the term 'contrary to law' as used in [ 18 U.S.C. § 545 ] is limited to laws for the violation of which a penalty is imposed.”
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.