Foley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.2d 1 · 1933
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 1997 · most notably In re Fried (1947), Hunsucker v. Phinney (1974)
25 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 612
Relies on Olmstead v. United States · Marron v. United States · Burdeau v. McDowell · Gouled v. United States · United States v. Lefkowitz
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'reach forward to control the improper preparation of evidence which is to be used in the case coming before it, and . . . by summary procedure (to) restrain oppressive or unlawful conduct of its own officers.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * by summary procedure restrain oppressive or unlawful conduct of its own officers.”
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.