Ray v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
301 U.S. 158 · 1937
Citation profile
86 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2016 · most notably Mortensen v. United States (1944), Reiner v. United States (1937)
86 federal appellate ·
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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Barber Asphalt Paving Co v. Standard Asphalt & Pubber Co · Bourjois, Inc. v. Chapman · Beckley Water Company v. Public Service Commission of West Virginia · Slade 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Supervision in Appellate Court. The supervision and control of tbe proceedings on appeal shall be in the appellate court from the time the notice of appeal is filed with its clerk, except as otherwise provided in these rules. The appellate court may at any time entertain a motion to dismiss the appeal, or for directions to the district court, or to modify or vacate any order made by the district court or by any judge in relation to the prosecution of the appeal, including any order fixing or denying bail. [ 6 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Upon the filing of the bill of exceptions and assignment of errors, the clerk of the trial court shall forthwith transmit them, together with such matters of record as are pertinent to the appeal, with his certificate, to the clerk of the appellate court, and the papers so forwarded shall constitute the record on appeal.””
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.