Hammerschmidt v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
265 U.S. 182 · 1924
Citation profile
571 federal appellate · 59 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 949 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Glasser v. United States (1942), McNally v. United States (1987)
571 federal appellate · 59 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Moses Haas v. William Henkel · Hyde v. Shine · Hecht v. Malley · United States v. Keitel
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 949 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'wronging one in his property rights by dishonest methods or schemes,' and 'usually signify the deprivation of something of value by trick, deceit, chicane or overreaching.'”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any conspiracy for the purpose of impairing, obstructing, or defeating the lawful function of any department of government.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest.”
9 later decisions 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.