Duke v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
301 U.S. 492 · 1937
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Russell v. United States (1962), Kordel v. United States (1948)
53 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHunter v. United States (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 243 · 18 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Falconi v. United States · Hunter v. United States · Thorm v. United States · Thorm 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for which no infamous punishment is prescribed.”
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.