United States v. Hankin’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 611 · 1979
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2014
16 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Grunewald v. United States · Toussie v. United States · Weatherford v. Bursey · United States v. Scharton · United States v. Chestnut
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It should be noted that although § 614 has been repealed, the definition of “contribution” applicable in this case was maintained in the successor statute. 2 U.S.C. § 441f. Thus, the construction of § 614 adopted here by the [Hankin] majority will have continued precedential value. As regards the venue issue, in particular, this is especially unfortunate. For the majority holding creates yet another anomalous result. The logical extension of the majority’s analysis would place venue at the home district of every potential donor. With such “fragmented” venue, enforcement efforts would undoubtedly be dispersed and diffuse. Hence, the result reached under the majority’s logic would impute to Congress an intent to weaken, rather than strengthen, the election laws by rendering them exceedingly onerous, if not virtually impossible, to enforce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the remedy for failure to bring an action within the statute of limitations is a bar to the right of prosecution”
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.