United States v. Blackshere’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2316
Relies on Kennedy v. Powell · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Reddish · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago River & Indiana Railroad · Gonzales v. United States · United States v. Salliey
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The allegation that the defendant knew the cattle to have been stolen does not supply the indictment with the necessary element of willfulness, for it cannot be said to have the same meaning.””
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.