Ragansky v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
253 F. 643 · 1918
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably Watts v. United States (1969), Rogers v. United States (1975)
20 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Potter v. United States · Spurr v. United States · United States v. Stickrath · Clark 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And a threat is willfully made, if in addition to comprehending the meaning of his words, the maker voluntarily and intentionally utters them as the declaration of an apparent determination to carry them into execution.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] threat is knowingly made, if the maker of it comprehends the meaning of the words uttered by him,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““While under some circumstances, the word ‘willfully’ in penal statutes means not merely voluntarily, but with a bad purpose [citations omitted], nothing in the text, context, or history of this legislation indicates the materiality of the hidden intent or purpose of one who * * * voluntarily uses language known by him to be in form such a threat * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.