United States v. Handler’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.2d 351 · 1944
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Turley (1957), Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 96,516 United States of America v. David M. Carman (1978)
41 federal appellate · 5 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 Crain v. United States · Jerome v. United States · Brooks v. United States · Pines v. United States · Crabb v. Zerbst
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The words steal and purloin were added to the section specifying embezzlement] to cover such cases as may shade into larceny, as well as any new situation which may arise under changing modern conditions and not envisioned under the common law * * *. Between * * * [embezzlement and larceny] there lies a gap which has grown wider and wider as the multifarious activities of the central government have spread and increased. Stealing, having no common law definition to restrict its meaning as an offense, is commonly used to denote any dishonest transaction whereby one person obtains that which rightfully belongs to another, and deprives the owner of the rights and benefits of ownership * * *.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'stolen' as used in 18 U.S.C. § 2312 includes all felonious takings of motor vehicles with intent to deprive the owner of the rights and benefits of possession.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In using the terms `stolen, feloniously converted, or taken feloniously by fraud or with intent to steal or purloin' in the National Stolen Property Act, the legislators employed expressions of `well and long-known legal and popular meaning'”
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.