Larson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
296 F.2d 80 · 1961
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Peters (1986), United States v. Burns (1980)
43 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 18 U.S.C. § 661
Relies on Berra v. United States · Stevenson v. United States · Giles v. United States · James 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he lesser offense must be such that it is impossible to commit the greater without first having committed the lesser.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[TJhe gravamen of the offense charged under Section 661, is the theft of property. Proof of this element, regardless of the value of the thing stolen, establishes no less than the misdemeanor set forth in the statute. Subsequent proof that the thing stolen had a value in excess of $100.00 bears only upon the penalty which may be imposed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“withdraws from the jury a measure of defense to which the defendant is entitled.”
3 later decisions 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.