Klepper v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.2d 694 · 1964
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1993
18 federal appellate · 1 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. § 3231
Relies on United States v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. · Southern Railway Co. v. Jackson · Wolfsohn v. Hankin · Deutschmann v. United States · Ginsburg v. Stern
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““THE COURT: Then I think it is admissible. If they claim they were innocent and had no knowledge of the marijuana, the fact that they had a loaded gun and that the bullets had been cut with a cross and one defendant said, ‘If you’re going to shoot somebody, you might as well— “What was the word? “THE WITNESS: ‘You might as well do a good job.’ “THE COURT: —would indicate somebody engaged in a criminal venture and not an innocent man, with contraband in the car. * * Klep-per, supra, p. 699.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The Mexican origin of the drug and its unlawful importation was established by the eyesight of the border officials: They saw the vehicle, in which the marihuana was concealed, physically come across the imaginary border line. What better proof is needed?” 331 F.2d at 702 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Previously, before the marijuana was found, when asked about the gun, Klepper stated (in explaining why he had cut the points of the bullets): ‘If you are going to shoot anybody you might as well do a good job.’ This was in the presence of Baumgardner.””
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.