Ledbetter v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
211 F.2d 628 · 1953
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 1972
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tomlinson v. Harver · Shaw 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Rule 41(d) requires that ‘a copy of the warrant and a receipt’ be left with the person from whom property is taken. The provisions of Rule 41 were observed meticulously in the present case.””
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.