Gilbert v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
215 F.2d 334 · 1954
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 1978 · most notably Pendergrast v. United States (1969), United States v. Johnson (1970)
32 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Wilson v. United States · Epps v. United States · Tractenberg v. United States · Wright 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Possession of the fruits of crime, recently after its commission, justifies the inference that the possession is guilty possession, and, though only prima facie evidence of guilt, may be of controlling weight, unless explained by the circum stances or accounted for in some way-consistent with innocence.”
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.