Stagner v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.2d 992 · 1952
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 1984 · most notably Daniel v. United States (1956), Patenotte v. United States (1959)
23 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 Kent v. United States · One 1941 Ford 1/2 Ton Pickup Automobile Truck, Motor No. 18-6725628 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is not to say that [defendant's] silence could supply a complete failure of proof. It is to say, though, that with the proof as it was, having at the least a strong tendency to prove the case for forfeiture, claimant's failure to offer any explanation of the incriminating circumstances could be taken against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. No 15865
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.