Maryland v. Soper’s Empirical Analysis
270 U.S. 9 · 1926
Citation profile
202 federal appellate · 70 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 481 later decisions (58 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2026 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Screws v. United States (1945)
202 federal appellate · 70 district · 8 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 Cohens v. Virginia · Virginia v. Rives · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Cockrell · Tennessee v. Davis · United States v. Sanges
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 481 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“causal connection between what the officer has done under asserted official authority”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That when any civil suit or criminal prosecution is commenced in any court of a state against any officer appointed under or acting by authority of any revenue law of the United States, now or hereafter enacted, or against any person acting under or by authority of any such officer, on account of any act done under color of his office oí of any such law, or on account of any right, title, or authority claimed by such officer or other person under any such law, * * * the said suit or prosecution may, at any time before the trial or final hearing thereof, be removed for trial into the District Court next to be holden in the district where the same is pending, upon the petition of such defendant to said District Court, and in the following manner: Said petition shall set forth' the nature of the suit or prosecution and be verified by affidavit, and, together with a certificate signed by an attorney or counsel-lor at law of some court of record of the state where such suit or prosecution is commenced, or of the United States, stating that, as counsel for the petitioner, he has- exam ined the proceedings against him and carefully inquired into all the matters set forth in the petition, and that he believes them to be true, shall be presented to the said District Court, if in session, or if it be not, to the clerk thereof at his office, and shall be filed in said office. The cause shall thereupon be entered on the docket of the District Court, and shall proceed as a cause original”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“officer[s] of the courts of the United States,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.