Bailey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
98 F.2d 306 · 1938
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably Prout v. State (1988), Pinkney v. United States (1966)
10 federal appellate · 15 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 District of Columbia v. Clawans · Schick v. United States · In re State · Clawans v. District of Columbia · Commonwealth v. Cook
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although this case was argued on the theory that appellant was charged with the offense of common prostitution, the fact is otherwise. She is charged under a statute which makes it an offense to invite, entice, or persuade a person in or upon a public street in the District of Columbia to accompany her to her residence for the purpose of prostitution or any other immoral or lewd purpose. She is not charged with the offense of prostitution. Perhaps a more common designation of the offense charged would be ‘street-walking,’ which is ordinarily punished as disorderly conduct or indecent behavior on the public highway.” Id. at 307 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Appeal No. 180““In the present case the statute condemns only solicitation on the streets, as an act of public immorality, and has no reference to the doing of any other illicit or immoral act.” Id. at 308 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Appeal No. 180
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.