Nardone v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
302 U.S. 379 · 1937
Citation profile
322 federal appellate · 48 district · 146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 783 later decisions (79 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Ker v. State of California (1963), Nardone v. United States (1939)
322 federal appellate · 48 district · 146 state decisions — followed in 24 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
reviewedUnited States v. Nardone (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Olmstead v. United States · Dollar Savings Bank v. United States · Stanley v. Schwalby · United States v. Herron
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 783 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inconsistent with ethical standards and destructive of personal liberty.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deprive the sovereign of a recognized or established prerogative title or interest”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sovereign is embraced by general words of a statute intended to prevent injury and wrong”
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.