United States v. Hagen’s Empirical Analysis
869 F.2d 277 · 1989
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013
15 federal appellate ·
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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Watt v. Alaska · Contemporary Mission, Inc. v. United States · O'Donnell v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The starting point for construing a statute is the language of the statute itself. The inquiry into the statute’s meaning does not however, end there. [Ascertainment of the meaning apparent on the face of a single statute need not end the inquiry. This is because the plain meaning rule is “rather an axiom of experience than a rule of law, and does not preclude consideration of persuasive evidence if it exists.””
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.