Hogan v. O'Neill’s Empirical Analysis
255 U.S. 52 · 1921
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 21 district · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably California v. Superior Court of Cal., San Bernardino Cty. (1987), Chase v. State Ex Rel. Burch (1927)
74 federal appellate · 21 district · 129 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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 Roberts v. Reilly · Biddinger v. Commissioner of Police · Munsey v. Clough · Arthur Appleyard v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · People of the State of Illinois Ex Rel John McNichols v. James Pease
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o be regarded as a fugitive from justice it is not necessary that one shall have left the State in which the crime is alleged to have been committed for the very purpose of avoiding prosecution, but simply that, having committed there an act which by the law of the State constitutes a crime, he afterwards has departed from its jurisdiction and when sought to be prosecuted is found within the territory of another State.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * The warrant of arrest issued in compliance with the demand of the governor of Massachusetts shows that he found appellant to be a fugitive; and this conclusion must stand unless clearly overthrown, which appellant has not succeeded in doing. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * at the time of the commission of the alleged crimes * * *,”
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.