Butts v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “It is not their duty to incite to and create crime for the sole purpose of prosecuting and punishing it”

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Cited by

83 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Sorrells v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1932-12-19· cited 1,793×
• Sherman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-05-19· cited 1,587×
• Casey v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1928-04-09· cited 208×
• England v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-09-14· cited 122×
• Morei v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1942-05-14· cited 102×
• People v. Braddock
  California Supreme Court· 1953-12-18· cited 96×
• Grossman v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-07-21· cited 89×
• Charles T. Henderson, Jr., George Truitt Robbins and John B. Dees v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1956-10-23· cited 84×
• Raymond Smith v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1964-02-20· cited 71×
• United States v. J. Wilton Hunt, Sr.
  Fourth Circuit· 1984-11-28· cited 59×
• Newman v. States
  Fourth Circuit· 1924-05-10· cited 54×
• Robinson v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1929-04-15· cited 53×
• Hunter v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1932-12-21· cited 48×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1956-01-11· cited 48×
• United States v. Reisenweber
  Second Circuit· 1923-01-18· cited 47×
• United States v. Frederick W. Klosterman. United States v. John R. Deeney, Jr. United States v. Joseph A. Stafford
  Third Circuit· 1957-09-09· cited 45×
• Paul Washington Kibby v. United States of America, Charles R. Stewart v. United States of America, Carl McFadden v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1967-02-20· cited 41×
• United States v. Dion
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-05-20· cited 41×
• Demos v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1953-08-06· cited 40×
• Jarl v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1927-05-05· cited 38×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Woo Wai v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1915-05-03· cited 98×
• Price v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1897-02-15· cited 95×
• Goode v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1895-11-25· cited 94×
• Andrews v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1896-04-13· cited 85×
• People v. McCord
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1889-07-11· cited 27×
• Yick v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1917-03-19· cited 27×
• Voves v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 1918-03-05· cited 27×
• Peterson v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1919-02-03· cited 26×
• Fiunkin v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1920-05-18· cited 26×
• United States v. Echols
  S.D. Texas· 1918-10-29· cited 23×

Other cases named Butts v. United States

20 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Butts v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2003-05-01· cited 36×
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2003-04-21
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-04-19
• Butts v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1925-09-15
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-10-04
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-05
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-23
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-27
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-18
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-02-24
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-02-24
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-10-03
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-10-03
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2003-04-21
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2003-04-21
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-10-04
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2001-10-29
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2013-04-29
• Butts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2020-02-24