United States v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis
313 F.2d 628 · 1963
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1993 · most notably United States v. Craven (1973), United States v. Draper (1989)
22 federal appellate ·
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 Holland v. United States · Martin v. Davis · McFarland v. United States · United States v. Comer
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person does not have actual possession but instead knowingly has the power and the intention at a given time to exercise dominion and control over an object, either directly or through others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Circumstantial evidence, if strong enough to convince the trier of the facts of a defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, is sufficient to sustain a finding of guilt, (citing cases).””
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.