United States v. Malcolm’s Empirical Analysis
282 U.S. 792 · 1931
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 3 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 278 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably United States v. Mitchell (1971), Wissner v. Wissner (1950)
89 federal appellate · 3 district · 24 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Poe v. Seaborn · Goodell v. Koch · Hopkins v. Bacon
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 278 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first question certified is answered: No. The second question is answered : Yes. Poe v. Seaborn, * * * [282 U.S.] p. 101; Goodell v. Koch, * * * [282 U.S.] p. 118; Hopkins v. Bacon, * * * [282 U.S.] p. 122.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.