United States v. Hon’s Empirical Analysis
306 F.2d 52 · 1962
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably United States v. South (1994), United States v. Atkinson (1993)
34 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act))
Relies on Caminetti v. United States · Anderson v. Alabama · Cleveland v. United States · Mortensen v. United States · Baker v. Carr
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here can be little or no need for a formal motion for a judgment of acquittal in a criminal case tried to a court without a jury upon the defendant's plea of not guilty. The plea of not guilty asks the court for a judgment of acquittal, and a motion to the same ends is not necessary.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An intention that the women or girls shall engage in the conduct outlawed by Section 2 [§ 2421] must be found to exist before the conclusion of the interstate journey and must be the dominant motive of such interstate movement.” 322 U.S. at 374 , 64 S.Ct. at 1040 . (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“while these two persons were engaging in a trip in interstate commerce for a proper purpose, she did incidentally engage in prostitution”
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.