Wolf v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
259 F. 388 · 1919
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1978
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Schenck v. United States · Frohwerk v. United States · Doe v. United States · O'Hare v. United States · State v. Wenzel
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The circumstances, as alleged, are that the statements were ‘publicly’ made to certain named person or persons and ‘to other persons to the grand jurors unknown/ ‘Publicly’ means in public, well known, open, notorious, common, or general, as opposed to private, secluded, or secret. The clear inference from the allegation would seem to be that the statement was uttered in the presence of a number of persons. There is no allegation that any of the immediate listeners were within the enlistment ages. The doctrine of the O’Hare and Doe Gases is that a statement to which wide publicity was given by the defendant would apparently reach men who might become recruits, and that it is unnecessary to prove, and therefore to allege, that such were actually present or actually were reached by the statements. Naturally the extefit of publicity would be an important consideration and, within certain limits, decisive. The extent and character of the publicity must be such that the apparent result of the utterance would be obstruction of the recruiting and enlistment service. But these may be generally stated, subject to a bill of particulars in proper instances. No such bill was filed here, and the general allegations that the statements were publicly made to certain persons and lo others unknown is sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““did then and there publicly state, say, and utter to and in the presence of David Lampert, T. J. McGuire, and John H. Gallaher, and to other persons to the grand jurors unknown.””
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.