Vane v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
254 F. 28 · 1918
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1957
10 federal appellate ·
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 · Williamson v. United States · Burton v. United States · Dunbar v. United States · Felton 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That he and three others did, on or about September 8, 1914, in the county •of Barnum, Northern district of Idaho, “willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously” make an assault, and then and there “willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously did rob the said Hugo De Witz of certain mail matter; that is to say, they * * * then and there willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously as aforesaid, and by force and violence, did take, steal, and carry away from the possession of, and against the will of, him, the said Hugo De Witz, the .aforesaid mail matter, which said mail matter then and there consisted of letters and parcels constituting a part of the United States mail then and there under the control of the post office establishment of the United States, and then abd there in the lawful charge and custody of him, the said Hugo De Witz; and they, * * * in effecting the robbery of such mail matter as aforesaid, did then and there put the life of the said Hugo De Witz in jeopardy by the use of dangerous weapons, to wit, a certain pistol and certain rifles then and there loaded with gunpowder and leaden bullets, with which said weapons the said William Vane * * * did then and there •threaten him, the said Hugo De Witz, and did put his life in peril.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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