5 F. Supp. 111 - Colson v. Aderhold’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1955
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Gavieres v. United States · Burton v. United States · Albrecht v. United States · Morgan v. Devine · United States v. Daugherty
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Would one who robbed * * * a person having custody of mail consisting of only ten letters, be guilty of one crime and subject to one penalty of twenty-five years’ imprisonment, or would he be guilty of ten crimes carrying penalties of two hundred and fifty years ?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hoffman
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.