United States v. LaBrecque’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2023
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 1112 · 18 U.S.C. § 1115
Relies on United States v. Bass · Bouie v. City of Columbia · Gibbons v. Ogden · Bell v. United States · Rewis 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]very master or other officer, seaman or other person employed on board of any ship or vessel of the United States, who shall, during the voyage of such ship or vessel, under promise of marriage, or by threats, or by the exercise of his authority, or by solicitation, or the making of gifts or presents, seduce and have illicit connexion with any female passenger, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor....”); id. at § 2, 12 Stat. at 3-4 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Certainly failures or omissions to act, so characteristic of the law of negligence, fall within the ambit of [involuntary manslaughter under Section 1112(a) ] which punishes criminal negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since pleasure and recreational activities are a vital part of the nation's commerce, the Commerce Clause, U.S. Const. Art. I, s 8, would reach pleasure vessels.”
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.