United States v. Ragen’s Empirical Analysis
314 U.S. 513 · 1942
Citation profile
187 federal appellate · 33 district · 146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 501 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Roth v. United States (1957), Miller v. California (1973)
187 federal appellate · 33 district · 146 state decisions — followed in 28 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Molasky (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Berger v. United States · Nash v. United States · United States v. L. Cohen Grocery Co. · International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
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 501 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A mind intent upon willful evasion is inconsistent with surprised innocence.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The mere fact that a penal statute is so framed as to require a jury upon occasion to determine a question of reasonableness is not sufficient to make it too vague to afford a practical guide to permissible conduct.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable allowance for salaries or other compensation”
3 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.