Colorado v. Symes’s Empirical Analysis
286 U.S. 510 · 1932
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 61 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 288 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Screws v. United States (1945), Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n (1943)
62 federal appellate · 61 district · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on Matthews v. Rodgers · Tennessee v. Davis · Maryland v. Soper · Mayor v. Cooper
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 288 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No question of guilt or innocence arises and no determination of fact is required but it must fairly appear from the showing made that petitioner’s claim is not without foundation and is made in good faith.” Accordingly, it is”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It scarcely need be said that such measures are to be liberally construed to give full effect to the purposes for which they were enacted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] civil action or criminal prosecution commenced in a State court against any of the following may be removed by them to the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place wherein it is pending: The United States or any agency thereof or any officer (or any person acting under that officer) of the United States or of any agency thereof, sued in an official or individual capacity for any act under color of such office or on account of any right, title or authority claimed under any Act of Congress for the apprehension or punishment of criminals or the collection of the revenue.”
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.