Chatwin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
326 U.S. 455 · 1946
Citation profile
252 federal appellate · 17 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 427 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Wichita Terminal Elevator Co. v. Commissioner (1947), United States v. Healy (1964)
252 federal appellate · 17 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedCleveland v. United States (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Gooch v. United States · In re Morrissey · United States v. Williams
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 427 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from among the wealthy with great care and study,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the involuntariness of seizure and detention ... is the very essence of the crime of kidnaping”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he act of holding a kidnapped person for a proscribed purpose necessarily implies an unlawful physical or mental restraint for an appreciable period against the person's will and with a willful intent so to confine the victim.”
4 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.