Coppage v. State of Kansas

1915-01-25 · Supreme Court of the United States · United States

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0What it rests on

5Relied on since

0Departed from

Relied on since

The judgments that cite this one. This is the answer that tells you the case is still alive.

19151 judgments15 years silent19301 judgments7 years silent19372 judgments33 years silent19701 judgments

5 judgments have relied on it, across 1915–1970

first 1915 · last 1970 · busiest 1937 (2 judgments)

1970-05-18In Re WinshipSupreme Court of the United States 1937-04-12National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.Supreme Court of the United States 1937-03-29VIRGINIAN RAILWAY CO. v. SYSTEM FEDERATION NO. 40, RAILWAY EMPLOYEES DEPARTMENT OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR, Et Al.Supreme Court of the United States 1930-05-26TEXAS & NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD COMPANY Et Al. v. BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY & STEAMSHIP CLERKS Et Al.Supreme Court of the United States 1915-11-01Truax and the Attorney General of the State of Arizona v. RaichSupreme Court of the United States

What it rests on

22 point outside the corpus. Read from the text, but no judgment held here answers to them. They are counted rather than hidden: this corpus is a slice, not the law.

Departed from

No judgment recorded a departure from this one.

Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

not characterised

Most citations carry no word at all. The Court does not always say what it is doing when it cites one of its own judgments, and where it stayed silent nothing is inferred here.