United States v. Hvass’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 22 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Mallard v. United States Dist. Court for Southern Dist. of Iowa (1989), Frazier v. Heebe (1987)
77 federal appellate · 22 district · 16 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 28 U.S.C. § 1654 · 28 U.S.C. § 2071 (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Amendments) · 43 U.S.C. § 1201
Relies on United States v. Borden Co. · United States v. Debrow · Viereck v. United States · Lilly v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad · Caha 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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court and all courts established by Act of Congress may from time to time prescribe rules for the conduct of their business. Such rules shall be consistent with Acts of Congress and rules of practice and procedure prescribed by the Supreme Court. Even if PF 15 were not automatically incorpo-”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In all courts of the United States the parties may plead and conduct their own cases personally or by counsel as, by the rules of such courts, respectively, are permitted to manage and conduct causes therein.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to make and amend rules governing its practice not inconsistent with these rules * * *”
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.