United States v. Sanges’s Empirical Analysis
48 F. 78 · 1891
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1995
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Hurtado v. People of the State of California · United States v. Cruikshank · Strauder v. West Virginia · Civil Rights Cases · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live
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.
“Section 5508 presupposes that the £ right and privilege,’ involved has already been secured by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and therefore it is necessary to turn to them for the definition of the right in this ' indictment charged to be violated, in order to determine whether the indictment is authorized by the provisions of that section. “ Fortunately we are not without judicial construction of these provisions and of other statutes relating to cognate subjects, as well as judicial expositions of the constitutional amendments, which, it is contended, contained the authority for their enactment. Slaughter-House Cases, 16 Wall. 36 ; United States v. Cruikshank, 1 Woods, 308 ; United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542 ; United States v. Reese, 92 U. S. 214 ; United States v. Harris, 106 U. S. 629 ; Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U. S. 303 ; Ex parte Virginia, 100 U. S. 339 ; Bradwell v. The State, 16 Wall. 130 ; Hurtado v. California, 110 U. S. 516 ; Civil Rights Cases, 109 U. S. 3 ; Ex parte Yarbrough, 110 U. S. 651 ; United States v. Waddell, 112 U. S. 76 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Congress of the United States clearly possesses the constitutional power and is charged with the constitutional duty to protect all agencies of the Federal government, including the courts, their officers and all persons whose attendance is necessary in the proceedings of those courts, such as parties, witnesses and jurors. That power and duty of protection have been exercised and performed with regard to parties, witnesses and jurors in section 5406 of the Revised' Statutes. “"With respect to a .prosecution for crime pending in a Federal court, or in a United States grand jury, the right-which this particular section designs to protect is a pubUc right, i.e. the right of the United States to have its witnesses and their testimony, and to have them protected in going to and returning from the court. The wrong punished in such a case is a public wrong, and its correlative is a public right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Congress of the United States clearly possesses the constitutional power and is charged with the constitutional duty to protect all agencies of the Federal government, including the courts, their officers and all persons whose attendance is necessary in the proceedings of those courts, such as parties, witnesses and jurors. That power and duty of protection have been exercised and performed with regard to parties, witnesses and jurors in section 5406 of the Revised' Statutes. “”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.