Coplin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.2d 652 · 1937
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Las Vegas Merchant Plumbers Ass'n v. United States (1954), United States v. Diggs (1981)
38 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 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 15 U.S.C. § 77A (§ 1 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 18 U.S.C. § 550
Relies on Connally v. General Construction Co. · Nash v. United States · United States v. L. Cohen Grocery Co. · Jefferson & Clearfield Coal & Iron Co. v. United States · Brooks 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All these terms, it is true, call for interpretation in accordance to the facts of a given case. So do the terms”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are not here dealing with newly discovered evidence. The [co-defendants] knew the alleged facts at the time the trial commenced____ After the verdict was returned, they suddenly became active on behalf of one of the convicted defendants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in light of the circumstances under which they were made,”
2 later decisions 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.