Baender v. Barnett’s Empirical Analysis
255 U.S. 224 · 1921
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 11 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936), Sorrells v. United States (1932)
56 federal appellate · 11 district · 26 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 United States v. Jin Fuey Moy · United States v. Kirby · Legal Tender Cases Knox v. Lee Parker · United States v. Field · The United States v. Peter Marigold
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute is not intended to include and make criminal a possession which is not conscious and willing. While its words are general, they are to be taken in a reasonable sense, and not in one which works manifest injustice or infringes constitutional safeguards. In so holding we but give effect to a cardinal rule of construction recognized in repeated decisions of this and other courts.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A statute must be construed, if fairly possible, so as to avoid not only the conclusion that it is unconstitutional but also grave doubts upon that score.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a possession which is not conscious and willing.”
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.