United States v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
333 U.S. 483 · 1948
Citation profile
255 federal appellate · 15 district · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 509 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Brown v. Allen (1953), 135 S. Ct. 2551 - Johnson v. United States (2015)
255 federal appellate · 15 district · 107 state decisions — followed in 26 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Hudson · Viereck v. United States · United States v. Brown · United States v. Eaton
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 509 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there are limits beyond which we cannot go in finding what Congress has not put into so many words or in making certain what it has left undefined or too vague for reasonable assurance of its meaning.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Each of the uncertainties in the residual clause may be tolerable in isolation, but 'their sum makes a task for us which at best could be only guesswork.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Sec. 8. (a) Any person, including the owner, operator, pilot, master, commanding officer, agent, or consignee of any means of transportation who— “(1). brings into or lands in the United States, by any means of transportation or otherwise, or attempts, "by himself or through another, to bring into or land in the United" States, by any means of transportation or other-.wise; “(2) Knowing that he is in the United -States in violation of la.w, and knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe that his last entry into the United States occurred lesg than three years prior thereto, transports, or moves, or attempts to transport- or move, within the United States by means o'f- transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law; - “(3) willfully or knowingly conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, in any pla'ce, including any building' or any means of transportation; or 1 “(4) willfully or knowingly encourages or induces, or attempt's to encourage or induce, either directly or indirectly, the entry into the United States of any alien, including an alien seaman, not duly admitted by an immigration officer or not lawfully' entitled to enter: o'r reside within the United States under the terms of :this Act'or any ' other- law relating to the immigration--or expulsion of-aliens, shall be' guilty--of' a -felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by 'a fine! not exceeding $2,000 or-by-imprison”
2 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.