District of Columbia v. Clawans’s Empirical Analysis
300 U.S. 617 · 1937
Citation profile
260 federal appellate · 24 district · 300 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 744 later decisions (65 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Duncan v. State of Louisiana (1968), Mullaney v. Wilbur (1975)
260 federal appellate · 24 district · 300 state decisions — followed in 36 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedClawans v. District of Columbia (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Boyd v. United States · Alford v. United States · Weems v. United States · In re Debs
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 744 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient to bring it within the class of major offenses, for the trial of which a jury may be demanded.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Engaging in the business of selling second-hand property without a license was not indictable at common law. Today it is at most but an infringement of local police regulations, and its moral quality is relatively inoffensive" 300 U.S. at 625 , 57 S.Ct. at 662 (emphasis supplied).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is settled by the decisions of this Court . . . that the right of trial by jury . . . does not extend to every criminal proceeding. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution there were numerous offenses, commonly described as ‘petty,’ which were tried summarily without a jury.””
3 later decisions 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.