United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
272 F.2d 149 · 1959
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1979 · most notably Williamson v. United States (1962), United States v. Beckley (1964)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 545 · 19 U.S.C. § 1602 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 482
Relies on McNabb v. United States · Upshaw v. United States · Nardone v. United States · Rea v. United States · Keck 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To require immediate seizure of the contraband upon discovery would deprive federal officers of a most effective method of obtaining evidence against ultimate consignees, clearly a result contrary to Congressional intent.” ( 272 F.2d at p. 153 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(n) one of (the statutes allegedly violated) conferred rights upon appellant. The allegedly illegal course of conduct of the agents neither deprived appellant of any substantial personal right nor violated any deep-rooted social value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.