Bozza v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
330 U.S. 160 · 1947
Citation profile
627 federal appellate · 27 district · 566 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,387 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Monge v. California (1998), Whalen v. United States (1980)
627 federal appellate · 27 district · 566 state decisions — followed in 42 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. Bozza (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 550
Relies on Reynolds v. States · Ex parte Lange · Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. · United States v. Johnson
Cited together with North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. DiFrancesco · United States v. Benz · Ex parte Lange · In re Bonner
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 1,387 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Constitution does not require that sentencing should be a game in which a wrong move by the judge means immunity for the prisoner.”
74 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Internal Revenue statutes have broken down the various steps and phases of a continuous illicit distilling business and made each of them a separate offense. Thus, these statutes have clearly carved out the conduct of making mash as a separate offense, thereby distinguishing it from the other offenses involving other steps and phases of the distilling business. Consequently, testimony to prove this separate offense of making mash must point directly to conduct within the narrow margins which the statute alone defines. One who neither engages in the conduct specifically prohibited, nor aids and abets it, does not violate the section which prohibits it.” 330 U.S. at 163 , 67 S.Ct. at 647 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“could not correct the sentence without causing him to suffer double punishment.”
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.