Haupt v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
330 U.S. 631 · 1947
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 9 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Morissette v. United States (1952), Yates v. United States (1957)
77 federal appellate · 9 district · 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Haupt (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Stromberg v. People of State of California · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Quirin Haupt Kerling Burger Heinck Thiel Neubauer United States Quirin v. Cox Usa 6 · Cramer 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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]uch testimony is to be scrutinized with care to be certain the statements are not expressions of mere lawful and permissible difference of opinion with our own government or quite proper appreciation of the land of birth,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“these statements . . . clearly were admissible on the question of intent and adherence to the enemy.”
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.