United States v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
464 F.2d 376 · 1972
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Warden Lewisburg Penitentiary v. Marrero (1974), United States v. Sperling (1974)
24 federal appellate · 12 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 1 U.S.C. § 109 · 18 U.S.C. § 3651 · 26 U.S.C. § 7237
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Ohio v. Kentucky · Stassen for President Citizens Committee v. Jordan · Davis v. United States · Hamm v. City of Rock Hill
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute, unless the repealing Act shall so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such penalty....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was meant to obviate mere technical abatement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warden v. Marrero
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.