United States v. Campos-Serrano’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
268 federal appellate · 35 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 515 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Sharpe (1985), Marek v. Chesny (1985)
268 federal appellate · 35 district · 81 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
reviewedUnited States v. Campos-Serrano (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Spies v. United States · Sansone v. United States · Gore 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 515 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(W)hen choice has to be made between two readings of what conduct Congress has made a crime, it is appropriate, before we choose the harsher alternative, to require that Congress should have spoken in language that is clear and definite.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'be subjected to a penalty unless the words of the statute plainly impose it,'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“§ 1546(a) Whoever knowingly forges, counterfeits, alters, or falsely makes any immigrant or non-immigrant visa, permit, border crossing card, alien registration receipt card, or other document required prescribed by statute or regulation for entry into or as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the United States, or utters, uses, attempts to use, possesses, obtains, accepts, or receives any such visa, permit, border crossing card, alien registration card, or other document prescribed by statute or regulation for entry into or as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the United States, knowing it to be forged, counterfeited, altered, or falsely made, or to have been procured by means of any false claim or statement, or to have been otherwise procured by fraud or unlawfully obtained; or....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.