Stephen Robert Hughes v. United States of America, George P. Stack v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
338 F.2d 651 · 1964
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably United States v. DeLeo (1970), Colella v. United States (1966)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Massachusetts District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Morissette v. United States · United States v. Balint · Fallen v. United States · United States v. Behrman · Madsen 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would seem to us that ‘unlawfully’ is a conclusion of law meaning ‘contrary to law’ and no more. We do not interpret it as meaning ‘knowingly.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“larcenous intent--knowledge of a wrongful act”
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.