Murphy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
206 F.2d 571 · 1953
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1978 · most notably United States v. Turley (1957), Thaggard v. United States (1965)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312
Relies on Davilman v. United States · Ackerson v. United States · United States v. Sicurella · 49 F. Supp. 351 - United States v. Adcock
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a person, intending to steal another’s automobile, obtains possession, although by and with the consent of the owner, by means of fraud or through fraudulent trick or device, and feloniously converts the property to his own use, the owner is regarded as having retained constructive possession and the conversion constitutes the trespass which is an essential element of larceny.”
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.