Fleming v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2002
22 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
Relies on Rugendorf v. United States · Balistrieri v. United States · Curley v. United States · Graves v. United States · Crawford 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [it is] not required to draw any inferences; (2) possession of recently stolen property does not shift the burden of proof from the government which must prove beyond a reasonable doubt each of the essential elements of the offense; and (3) the inference is forbidden if the accused’s possession of the property is satisfactorily explained by independent evidence or by his own testimony. [ 310 A.2d at 217-18 (footnote omitted). See Pendergrast v. United States, 135 U.S.App.D.C. 20 , 32-35, 416 F.2d 776, 788-91 , cert. denied, 395 U.S. 926 , 89 S.Ct. 1782 , 23 L.Ed.2d 243 (1969).]”
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.