Maxwell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
235 F.2d 930 · 1956
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Ross v. United States (1967), United States v. Wade (1966)
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Rosen v. United States · United States v. Maxwell
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he plain language of the statute discloses a clear intent on the part of Congress to extend federal protection over mail matter from the time it enters the mails until it reaches the addressee or his authorized agent.” (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Title 18, United States Code, Section 1702, provides in part that: “Whoever takes any letter, postal card, or package out of any post office or any authorized depository for mail matter ... before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was directed, with design to obstruct the correspondence [shall be guilty of an offense against the United States].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘The suggestion that when the mail was deposited in a privately owned box it passed out of the custody of the government and beyond the protection of the law does not deserve extended notice. The letters which were stolen did not reach the manual possession of the persons to whom they were addressed, but were taken from an authorized depository over which the Act of Congress, by its express terms, extended its protection until its function had been served.’”
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.