United States v. Resnick’s Empirical Analysis
299 U.S. 207 · 1936
Citation profile
117 federal appellate · 36 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 311 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably Kordel v. United States (1948), United States v. Hark (1944)
117 federal appellate · 36 district · 89 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 United States v. Wiltberger · Pacific States Box & Basket Co. v. White · United States v. Lacher · United States v. Chase
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 311 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutes creating crimes are to be strictly construed in favor of the accused; they may not be held to apply to cases not covered by the words used. . . .”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cockrell v. State · State v. Dean““The act . . . expresses no condemnation of two-quart hampers. Before one may be punished, it must appear that his case is plainly within the statute. ... As in absence of governmental regulation the making and selling of containers is untrammeled, failure expressly to permit is not to prohibit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Before one may be punished, it must appear that his case is plainly within the statute; there are no constructive offenses.””
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.