Shaffer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
308 F.2d 654 · 1962
Citation profile
31 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013 · most notably Holloway v. United States (1999), United States v. Renfro (1980)
31 federal appellate ·
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. § 113
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not to be measured by the secret motive of the actor, or some undisclosed purpose merely to frighten, not to hurt,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 113. Assaults within maritime and territorial jurisdiction Whoever, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, is guilty of an assault shall be punished as follows: (a) Assault with intent to commit murder or rape, by imprisonment for not more than twenty years. (b) Assault with intent to commit any felony, except murder or rape, by fine of not more than $3,000 or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both. (c) Assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, and without just cause or excuse, by fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. (d) Assault by striking, beating, or wounding, by fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both. (e) Simple assault, by fine of not more than $300 or imprisonment for not more than three months, or both.”
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.