Boone v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
235 F.2d 939 · 1956
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably United States v. Turley (1957), Thaggard v. United States (1965)
34 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on United States v. De Normand · Hite v. United States · Crabb v. Zerbst · Oddo 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(s)teal' (originally 'stale') at first denoted in general usage a taking through secrecy, as implied in 'stealth,' or through strategem, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Expanded through the years, it became the generic designation for dishonest acquisition, but it never lost its initial connotation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“while 'stolen' is constantly identified with larceny, the term was never at common law equated or exclusively dedicated to larceny.... Nor in law is 'steal' or 'stolen' a word of art,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. at 940, and said that regardless of what significance the common law, the courts, or the lexicologists have ascribed to”
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.