District of Columbia v. Colts’s Empirical Analysis
282 U.S. 63 · 1930
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 24 district · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 296 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Duncan v. State of Louisiana (1968), Welsh v. Wisconsin (1984)
69 federal appellate · 24 district · 141 state decisions — followed in 28 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
reviewedStory v. United States (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Nash v. United States · Lawton v. Steele · Callan v. Wilson · Schick 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 296 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was an indictable offense at common law,”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) In a criminal prosecution within the jurisdiction of the Court of General Sessions in which, according to the Constitution of the United States, the accused would be entitled to a jury trial, the trial shall be by jury, * * * “(b) In any case where the accused would not by force of the Constitution of the United States be entitled to a trial by jury, the trial shall be by the court without a jury, unless it is a case wherein the fine or penalty may be more than $300, or imprisonment as punishment for the offense may be more than ninety days and the accused demands a trial by jury. In the latter case the trial shall be by jury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be read in the light of the common law.”
2 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.