Schacht v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
167 federal appellate · 30 district · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 507 later decisions (50 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2019 · most notably Bowles v. Russell (2007), Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota (1992)
167 federal appellate · 30 district · 104 state decisions — followed in 24 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. Smith (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. O'Brien · United States v. Robinson · Stromberg v. People of State of California · Heflin v. United States · American Farm Lines v. Black Ball Freight Service
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 507 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can be relaxed by the Court in the exercise of its discretion when the ends of justice so require”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the portrayal does not tend to discredit that armed force.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the general principle that “[i]t is always within the discretion of a court or an administrative agency to relax or modify its procedural rules adopted for the orderly transaction of business before it when in a given case the ends of justice require it. The action of either in such a case is not reviewable except upon a showing of substantial prejudice to the complaining party.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.