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64 F.2d 605 · 1933

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
November 2011
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2011

5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)

Relies on Caminetti v. United States · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Knowlton v. Moore · United States v. Kirby · Wisconsin Central Railroad v. United States

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would avoid results of this character.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “A particular construction must not produce inequality and injustice if another and more reasonable interpretation is possible.”
    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.