Felton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 699 · 1877
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 20 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022 · most notably Morissette v. United States (1952), Screws v. United States (1945)
67 federal appellate · 20 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' said the Supreme Court, in Felton v. United States, 96 U.S. 702 , 24 L.Ed. 875 , `implies not only a knowledge of the thing, but a determination with a bad intent to do it or to omit doing it.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Doing o romitting to do a thing knowingly and "willfully,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.