Booth v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
154 F.2d 73 · 1946
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1977
13 federal appellate ·
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 Bollenbach v. United States · Tot v. United States · Chicago St Ry Co v. Coogan · United States v. Ross · United States v. Di Carlo
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As in the Bollenbach case, this evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction in the absence of the erroneous instruction. However, the jury well could have inferred that Mooney was not a trustworthy person because he was a participant in the fraudulent attempt to squeeze a reward out of Mr. Lucas, in which he was to participate, and that he was not indicted so he could give evidence for the government, and hence that they did not believe him. In that event the jury well may have relied upon the erroneous instruction that they could infer the securities had been or were in interstate commerce because they could infer that the possessors of stolen goods are those who stole them, and hence concluded a conspiracy between Booth and the other possessor. Since the verdict may have rested upon the erroneous instruction, the judgment of conviction sentencing appellant is reversed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If you believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendants or any of them had unexplained possession in California of the securities involved, recently after their theft in Washington, you may infer from their possession that these securities were still a part of interstate commerce. That is to say, if the jury believes the securities were stolen and entered into the flow of interstate commerce as such, and there being no evidence of an intermediate sale to a purchaser and that said securities came into the unexplained possession of the defendants, knowing said securities to be stolen property, you may infer .that the securities at the time they came into possession of the defendants were still in interstate commerce. 8”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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