United States v. Hastings’s Empirical Analysis
296 U.S. 188 · 1935
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1993 · most notably Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936), Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. (1947)
22 federal appellate · 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 7 U.S.C. § 242
Relies on United States v. Colgate & Co. · Murdock v. City of Memphis · United States v. Yuginovich · United States v. A. Schrader's Son, Inc. · United States v. Keitel
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from a decision or judgment quashing, setting aside, or sustaining a demurrer to, any indictment, or any count thereof, where such decision or judgment is based upon the invalidity, or construction of the statute upon which the indictment is founded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Review of a judgment which we cannot disturb, because it rests adequately upon a basis not subject to our examination, would be an anomaly.”
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.