Hines v. Lowrey’s Empirical Analysis
305 U.S. 85 · 1938
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 9 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Testa v. Katt (1947), United States v. Oregon (1961)
12 federal appellate · 9 district · 16 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.
Relationships
Relies on Claflin v. Houseman · Calhoun v. Massie · Margolin v. United States · Hines v. Stein
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever (1) directly or indirectly solicits* contracts for, charges, or receives, or attempts to solicit, contract for, charge, or receive, any fee or compensation except as provided in sections 3404 or 784 of this title, or (2) wrongfully withholds from any claimant or beneficiary any part of a benefit or claim allowed and due him, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned at hard labor for not more than two years, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Staub v. Johnson““Congressional enactments in pursuance of constitutional authority are the supreme law of the land. Section 500 is a valid exercise of congressional power.””
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.