Toussie v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
696 federal appellate · 95 district · 566 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,714 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably United States v. Marion (1971), Doggett v. United States (1992)
696 federal appellate · 95 district · 566 state decisions — followed in 42 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Toussie (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. O'Brien · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Leary v. United States · Marchetti v. United States · Grosso v. United States
Cited together with United States v. Marion · United States v. Bailey · Pendergast v. United States · United States v. Habig · Grunewald 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 1,714 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“designed to protect individuals from having to defend themselves against charges when the basic facts may have become obscured by the passage of time and to minimize the danger of official punishment because of acts in the far-distant past.”
83 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless the explicit language of the substantive criminal statute compels such a conclusion, or the nature of the crime involved is such that Congress must assuredly have intended that it be treated as a continuing one.”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]xcept as otherwise expressly provided by law.”
16 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.