Stallings v. Splain’s Empirical Analysis
253 U.S. 339 · 1920
Citation profile
128 federal appellate · 26 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 329 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably McNally v. Hill (1934), Hensley v. Municipal Court, San Jose-Milpitas Judicial Dist., Santa Clara Cty. (1973)
128 federal appellate · 26 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 21 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Nishimura Ekiu v. United States · Moses Haas v. William Henkel · Wales v. Whitney · Kurtz v. Moffitt
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 329 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the original arrest and detention had been illegal, [appellant] would not be entitled to his discharge, if, before final hearing in the habeas corpus proceedings, legal cause for detaining him had arisen through the institution of removal proceedings. Where it appears that sufficient ground for detention exists, a prisoner will not be discharged for defects in the original arrest or commitment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the bench warrant issued in Wyoming was not effective as a warrant within the District of Columbia, the possession of it did not render illegal an arrest which could lawfully have been made without it.””
3 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.