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282 U.S. 792

51 S. Ct. 184

75 L. Ed. 714

Docket No. 512.

United States v. Malcolm

Supreme Court of the United States

Submitted January 12, 1931.

Decided January 19, 1931.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1931-01-19

2 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“The first question certified is answered: No. The second question is answered : Yes. Poe v. Seaborn, * * * [282 U.S.] p. 101; Goodell v. Koch, * * * [282 U.S.] p. 118; Hopkins v. Bacon, * * * [282 U.S.] p. 122.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Gantt v. Commissioner

Relies on Poe v. Seaborn · Goodell v. Koch · Hopkins v. Bacon

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Certification to/from lower court · 9–0 · Decided 1931-01-19

How this case has been cited

Cited by 278 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably United States v. Mitchell (1971), Wissner v. Wissner (1950)

89 federal appellate · 3 district · 24 state decisions

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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.

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¶1*794Solicitor General Thacher, Assistant Attorney General Youngquist, Mr. Sewall Key and Miss Helen B. Carloss, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, and Mr. Erwin N. Griswold submitted for the United States.

¶2Messrs. Kingman Brewster, James S. Y. Ivins, Allen G. Wright, A. J. 'Hill, O. R. Folsom-Jones, Joseph D. Brady, and F. E. Youngman submitted for Malcolm.

¶3Pee Curiam.

¶4The first question certified is answered: No. The second question is answered: Yes. Poe v. Seaborn, ante, p. 101; Goodell v. Koch, ante, p. 118; Hopkins v. Bacon, ante, p. 122.

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