Fiswick v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
329 U.S. 211 · 1946
Citation profile
668 federal appellate · 54 district · 230 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,204 later decisions (83 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Chapman v. State of California (1967), Wong Sun v. United States (1963)
668 federal appellate · 54 district · 230 state decisions — followed in 34 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. Fiswick (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 451
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Logan v. United States · Nash v. United States
Cited together with Krulewitch v. United States · United State v. Morgan · Lutwak v. United States · St. Pierre v. United States · Sibron v. State of New York Peters
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 1,204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a substantial stake in the judgment of conviction which survives the satisfaction of the sentences imposed on him.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]onfession or admission by one co-conspirator after he has been apprehended is not in any sense a furtherance of the criminal enterprise. It is rather a frustration of it_ So far as each conspirator who confessed was concerned, the plot was then terminated. He thereupon ceased to act in the role of a conspirator. His admissions were therefore not admissible against his erstwhile fellow-conspirators.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Though the result of a conspiracy may be continuing, the conspiracy does not thereby become a continuing one. Continuity of action to produce the unlawful result, or ... 'continuous co-operation of the conspirators to keep it up’ is necessary.”
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.