Ricks v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
414 F.2d 1111 · 1968
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably Ricks v. District of Columbia (1968), Manual De J. Gomez v. Jerry v. Wilson, Chief of Police (1973)
28 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Connally v. General Construction Co. · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · United States v. James Griggs Raines · Barrows v. Jackson · United States v. National Dairy Products Corp.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) For the purpose of this section— (1) the term ‘vagrant’ shall mean any person who is a narcotic drug user or who has been convicted of a narcotic offense in the District of Columbia or elsewhere and who— (A) having no lawful employment or visible means of support realized from a lawful occupation or source, is found mingling with others in public or loitering in any park or other public place and fails to give a good account of himself-, * * * (emphasis added)”
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.