Morandy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.2d 5 · 1948
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 1972 · most notably Cotton v. United States (1967), Barfield v. United States (1956)
47 federal appellate · 1 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 Bollenbach v. United States · Tot v. United States · Booth v. United States
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he law is that the possession of the fruits of a crime recently after its commission, — namely, here, the automobile, in the absence of an explanation justifying the possession, warrants an inference pointing towards guilt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * Since the jury were at liberty to infer that appellant stole the car, they were necessarily warranted in concluding that he transported it, knowing it to be stolen, to the place where it was found in his possession.””
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.