Hardwick v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
296 F.2d 24 · 1961
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably Bayless v. United States (1967), United States v. Spletzer (1976)
31 federal appellate · 1 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. § 751 · 28 U.S.C. § 1732
Relies on Mullican v. United States · Clainos v. United States · Redmond v. Commerce Trust Co. · Ege 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an escape from a state institution is an escape from the custody of the Attorney General if the prisoner has been confined there under the authority of the Attorney General.”
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.