Fetters v. United States ex rel. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
283 U.S. 638 · 1931
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1994 · most notably Ex parte United States (1932), Margaret S. Rodriguez v. Donald E. Ritchey (1977)
26 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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
reviewedUnited States ex rel. Cunningham v. Mathues (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on George Henry v. William Henkel · Barry v. United States ex rel. Cunningham · John Benson v. William Henkel · United States Hughes v. Gault U S · Morse 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““take place in advance of indictment or without the production of the indictment if one has been returned.” Fetters v. United States, 1931, 283 U.S. 638, 641 , 51 S.Ct. 596, 598 , 75 L.Ed. 1321 . See, Morse v. United States, 1925, 267 U.S. 80, 83 , 45 S.Ct. 209 , 69 L.Ed. 522 .”
1 later decision 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.