Baker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.2d 924 · 1962
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Haldeman (1976), United States v. Bozza (1966)
55 federal appellate · 2 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 Morissette v. United States · Minner v. United States · Bloch v. United States · Levine v. United States · Wardlaw 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where intent is a necessary element of the crime, it is error for the court to instruct the jury that it may, but is not required to, infer the requisite intent from an isolated fact. There can be no presumption as to intention which would permit the jury to make an assumption which all the evidence considered together does not logically establish.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““But appellant had no theory of the case other than a denial of the charge, putting the Government on its proof. That theory was adequately presented when the court gave the usual instructions .concerning the presumption of innocence and the necessity of the Government proving each element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.” 310 F.2d at 930 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is an intent that the female transported by the accused in interstate commerce shall, after such transportation, engage in the charged immoral conduct.”
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.