Rocha v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
288 F.2d 545 · 1961
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably United States v. Yousef (2003), United States v. Campos-Serrano (1971)
68 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1546 · 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 3237 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1325 (§ 275 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Berger v. United States · Lutwak v. United States · United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. · Ford 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Acts done outside a jurisdiction, but intended to produce and producing detrimental effects within it, justify a State in punishing the cause of the harm as if he had been present at the effect, if the State should succeed in getting him within its power.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.