Casey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
276 U.S. 413 · 1928
Citation profile
344 federal appellate · 18 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 522 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Roviaro v. United States (1957), United States v. Russell (1973)
344 federal appellate · 18 district · 79 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedCasey v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Coffin v. United States · Davis v. United States · Hem v. United States · Mobile Jackson Kansas City Railroad Company v. J a Turnipseed · Hill v. Wallace
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 522 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is consistent with all the constitutional protections of accused men to throw on them the burden of proving facts peculiarly within their knowledge and hidden from discovery by the Government.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may not provoke or create a crime, and then punish the criminal, its creature.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"But it does not follow that the court must suffer a detective-made criminal to be punished.... This prosecution should be stopped, not because some right of Casey's has been denied, but in order to protect the Government. To protect it from illegal conduct of its officers. To preserve the purity of its courts." Id. at 423 , 48 S.Ct. at 375 (Brandeis, J., dissenting) (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Soto v. State · State v. Parr
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.