United States v. Halseth’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
92 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably United States v. Enmons (1973), United States v. Sisson (1970)
92 federal appellate · 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on France v. United States · Francis v. United States · Francis v. United States · United States v. Irvine
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The lottery had already been drawn; the papers carried by the messengers were not then dependent upon the event of any lottery. * * * “There is no contradiction in the testimony, and the government admits and assumes that the drawing in regard to which these papers contained any information had already taken place in Kentucky, and it was the result of that drawing only that was on its way in the hands of messengers to the agents of the lottery in Cincinnati. “The statute does not cover the transaction, and however reprehensible the acts of the plaintiffs in error may be thought to be, we cannot sustain a conviction on that ground. Although the objection is a narrow •one, yet the statute being highly penal, rendering its violator liable to fine and imprisonment, we are compelled to construe it strictly.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the words 'concerning any lottery' mean an existing, going lottery or gambling scheme”
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.