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283 U.S. 514 · 1931

Citation profile

149
cited by 149 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
6
states following
September 2008
most recently cited

63 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 149 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008 · most notably United States v. Yazell (1966), United States v. Bongiorno (1997)

63 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 state decisions

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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

reviewedCuster v. McCutcheon (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Relies on Wayman v. Southard · Fink v. O'Neil · The United States v. Jacob Knight · Southern Railway Co. v. Hussey

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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he time limited for issuing executions is, strictly speaking, not a statute of limitations,”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. United States v. Jenkins · Matthews v. HEIRS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEV., ETC.
  2. “Section 916 prohibit(ed) the courts of the United States from adopting, recognizing, or giving effect to any form of execution, except such as was . . . a writ authorized by the laws of the state.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Gabovitch v. Lundy
  3. “[t]he party in whose favor judgment is given, may, at any time within five years after the entry thereof, have a writ of execution issued for its enforcement.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Peter J. Bresson v. Commissioner

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.