Michaelson v. United States Chicago St P M & O Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Brocker v. Brocker (1968)
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 64 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Panama Co v. Johnson · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · Bessette v. W. B. Conkey Co. · Ex parte Robinson
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In criminal contempts, as in criminal cases, the presumption of innocence obtains. Proof of guilt must be beyond reasonable doubt and the defendant may not be compelled to be a witness against himself.””
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.