United States v. Blum’s Empirical Analysis
329 F.2d 49 · 1964
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Corngold v. United States (1966), United States v. Capra (1974)
18 federal appellate · 3 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1732
Relies on United States v. New York Foreign Trade Zone Operators, Inc.
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.
““We find no merit in the claim of unreasonable search and seizure. R. E. A. had a right to open the carton and examine the contents, which were misdeclared on the waybill. The electronic devices had indicated that the contents were other than the declared cutlery, justifying inspection under the right reserved in R. E. A.’s Express Classification.” 329 F.2d at 52.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Railway Express Air Division, in San Diego, California, close to the Mexican border, received from a ‘Mexican fellow’ a carton for shipment to appellant, a New York watch dealer, at appellant’s home address in Brooklyn, New York. R.E.A. notified a Customs Agent, and the next day, when the same person brought in another carton, with the same consignor and consignee indicated, the carton when examined by an electronic device appeared to contain radioactive material. Thereafter, a Customs Agent at Idlewild Airport located and examined the first carton, which examination also indicated the presence of radioactive material. With permission of R.E.A., the package was opened and found to contain 2,149 Swiss watch movements without any importer’s symbol. The movements were replaced in the package, the package resealed, and a search warrant obtained. With the assistance of R.E.A., a Customs Agent was clothed and equipped as an R.E.A. employee and made the delivery of both packages. Half an hour later, dressed in civilian clothes, the agent returned to Blum’s premises, identified himself and asked for the packages. The appellant told the agent the whereabouts of the packages, in a utility room of Blum’s house and the agent took the packages and arrested B’nm. Blum when questioned about the cartons said they might be cutlery (one was mislabeled cutlery). When asked to open them, he refused, stating that they might be watches. Blum’s explanation of their receipt was that one Sluis, the ”
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.