Pothier v.’s Empirical Analysis
261 U.S. 307 · 1923
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2003 · most notably Rowland v. California Men's Colony, Unit II Men's Advisory Council (1993), Bowen v. Johnston (1939)
35 federal appellate · 2 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 Lau Ow Bew v. United States · Credits Commutation Company v. United States · Ex parte Cutting · In re Engelhard & Sons Co. · Cross v. Burke
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne who makes this affidavit exposes himself 'to the pains of perjury in a case of bad faith.' . . . This constitutes a sanction important in protection of the public against a false or fraudulent invocation of the statute's benefits.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the locus of the alleged crime was within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States demands consideration of many facts and seriously controverted questions of law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowen v. Johnston
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.