United States v. Midstate Horticultural Co.’s Empirical Analysis
306 U.S. 161 · 1939
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 6 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Toussie v. United States (1970), United States v. Johnson (1944)
60 federal appellate · 6 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Armour Packing Company v. United States · United States v. Angeline Lombardo · United States v. Clara Holte · Armour Packing Co. 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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A continuing offense is a continuous, unlawful act or series of acts set on foot by a single impulse and operated by an unintermittent force, however long a time it may occupy.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be ... held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed....”
2 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.