The Good Templar’s Empirical Analysis
97 F. 651 · 1899
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1931
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Boyd v. United States · Coffey v. United States · United States v. Zucker · Lilienthal's Tobacco v. United States · The United States v. The Brig Burdett
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A distinction Is to be noted between civil and criminal cases in respect to the degree or quantity of evidence necessary to justify the jury in finding their verdict for the government. In civil cases their duty is to weigh the evidence carefully and to find for the party in whose favor the evidence preponderates. although it be not free from reasonable doubt. But in a criminal trial the party accused is entitled to the benefit of the legal presumption in favor of innocence, which in doubtful eases is always sufficient to turn the scale in his favor It is, therefore, a rale of criminal law that the guilt of the accused must be fully proved.””
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.