263 F. Supp. 360 - In Re Ryder’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably United States v. Rasheed (1981), 29 Cal. 3d 682 - People v. Meredith (1981)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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. § 5851 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Harris v. United States · United States v. White · Clark v. United States · Bradley v. Fisher · Pargoud v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“that they have been stolen, in the sense that they could testify to it in a court room. . . . But that the jury must find that the receiver did more than infer the theft from the circumstances has never been demanded, so far as we know; and to demand more would emasculate the statute, . . .. 36 Taking the Scruggses' own story at face value, these defendants had the following information when they finally”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that goods are stolen and merely being put upon an inquiry which would have led to discovery; but they have misconceived the distinction which the decisions have made. The receivers of stolen goods almost never”
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.