McBoyle v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
283 U.S. 25 · 1931
Citation profile
329 federal appellate · 61 district · 280 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 918 later decisions (66 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Bass (1971), Bouie v. City of Columbia (1964)
329 federal appellate · 61 district · 280 state decisions — followed in 32 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
reviewedMcBoyle v. United States (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind · McBoyle 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 918 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed. To make the warning fair, so far as possible the line should be clear.”
73 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an automobile, automobile truck, automobile wagon, motor cycle, or any other self-propelled vehicle not designed for running on rails.”
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.