United States v. Scales’s Empirical Analysis
249 F.2d 368 · 1957
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably Arellanes v. United States (1962), 56 Cal. 2d 879 - In Re Harris (1961)
39 federal appellate · 5 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 26 U.S.C. § 7237 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Walker · Davis v. United States · Barber v. United States · United States v. Haywood
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant further challenges the validity of the search warrant issued in this case, the forcible entry into the premises occupied by him and the admission in evidence of the narcotics thus obtained. These questions are matters reviewable on an appeal from the judgment of conviction in the court below, and we have held that a motion under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 cannot be used in lieu of an appeal. Davis v. United States, 7 Cir., 1954, 214 F.2d 594 , 596, and United States v. Haywood, 7 Cir., 1953, 208 F.2d 156 , 159.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * we think the record here clearly shows that appellant had the ‘opportunity’ to affirm or deny his identity as provided in the statutes. The court had no obligation to proceed further or more formally unless and until the identity of ap *851 pellant as the man previously convicted was denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““He [defendant] contends the court had the burden of directly questioning him on this subject in a manner similar to proceedings upon formal arraignment, and that without such inquiry his attitude of silence must be resolved in his favor on this issue.””
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.