Hansen v. Haff’s Empirical Analysis
291 U.S. 559 · 1934
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Hawkins v. United States (1958), Mortensen v. United States (1944)
72 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHansen v. Haff (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Caminetti v. United States · Lewis v. Frick · Anna Lapina v. William Williams · United States v. John Bitty
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“People not of good moral character like others, travel from place to place and change their residence. But to say that because they indulge in illegal or immoral acts, they travel for that purpose, is to emphasize that which is incidental and ignore what is of primary significance.” Hansen v. Haff, 291 U.S. 559 , 562-63, 54 S.Ct. 494 , 78 L.Ed. 968 (1934). 5 . We reach this claim despite our reversal of Banks’s VICAR convictions based on the jury instructions because”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose, or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice, or compel such woman or girl to become a prostitute or to give herself up to' debauchery, or to engage in any other immoral practice.”
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.