United States v. Diaz’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 113 · 1974
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2004
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 16 U.S.C. § 433
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Grayned v. City of Rockford
Most-quoted passages
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“fatally vague in violation of the due process clause of the Constitution.”); but see U.S. v. Smyer, 596 F.2d 939, 941 (10th Cir.1979) (holding that”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person who shall appropriate, excavate, injure, or destroy any historic or prehistoric ruin or monument, or any object of antiquity, situate on lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States, without the permission of the Secretary of the Department of the Government having jurisdiction over the lands on which said antiquities are situated, shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum of not more than $500 or be imprisoned for a period of not more than ninety days, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'object of antiquity' could include something that was made just yesterday if related to religious or social traditions of long standing.”
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.