Hudson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
272 U.S. 451 · 1926
Citation profile
124 federal appellate · 10 district · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 374 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably North Carolina v. Alford (1970), United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United States Bay Counties Dist Council of Carpenters (1947)
124 federal appellate · 10 district · 136 state decisions — followed in 24 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
reviewedHudson v. United States (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gunn v. United States · United States v. Lair · Commonwealth v. Holstine · Mahoney v. State
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 374 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Like the implied confession, this plea does not create an es-toppel, but, like the plea of guilty, it is an admission of guilt for the purposes of the case.””
8 later decisions 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.