Bush v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
267 F.2d 483 · 1959
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Carbo v. United States (1963), Williamson v. United States (1962)
57 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act))
Relies on Tennessee Burley Tobacco Growers' Ass'n v. Range · Lovell Manufacturing Co. v. Etten · Cannon v. Ellis · Preston v. Texas · D'Aquino v. United States
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.
“It is not necessary that such intent be the sole and single purpose of the transportation, if such purpose and intent was one of the reasons for the transportation.”). Other circuits interpreted the Act's purpose element similarly, consistently holding that the Act did not require”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Merely because a statement is made or question asked by court or counsel in the heat of a spirited trial which subsequently in the cool ivory tower of appellate court chambers seems inappropriate, does not make the stating nor the asking prejudicial error.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conflicting stories . . . presented a question of fact to be passed upon by the jury at the time of trial, and by the trial judge on the motion for new trial.”
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.