United States v. La Franca’s Empirical Analysis
282 U.S. 568 · 1931
Citation profile
182 federal appellate · 55 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 580 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably United States v. Halper (1989), Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez (1963)
182 federal appellate · 55 district · 91 state decisions — followed in 23 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
reviewedLa Franca v. United States (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. One Ford Coupe Automobile · United States v. Jin Fuey Moy · Fillippon v. Albion Vein Slate Co. · Lipke v. Lederer
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 580 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an exaction imposed by statute as punishment for an unlawful act.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A statute must be construed, if fairly possible, so as to avoid not only the conclusion that it is unconstitutional, but also grave doubts upon that score.” (quotation marks omitted)). Because we do not believe that SORNA raises”
4 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.