Bailey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.2d 451 · 1934
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Harmelin v. Michigan (1991), Story v. Rives (1938)
37 federal appellate · 7 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 Caminetti v. United States · Weems v. United States · Shepard v. United States · Brooks v. United States · Hoke & Economides 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is our opinion that Congress did not use the phrase `term of years' in the technical sense attributable to it when applied to estate in lands. Life being of limited duration and death being certain, a sentence for life is definite and certain. It is tantamount to a sentence for a definite term of years greater than the possible life span of the person sentenced."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ordinarily will not be regarded as cruel and unusual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harmelin v. Michigan
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.