United States v. Beckley’s Empirical Analysis
335 F.2d 86 · 1964
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1990 · most notably United States v. Ramsey (1977), United States v. Washington (1978)
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 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 Carroll v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Boyd v. United States · Upshaw v. United States · Ex parte Jackson
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... [Fjourth Amendment standards applicable to mail matter moving entirely within the country are not applicable to mail matter coming in from outside the country at least where it appears that a customs determination must be made. . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gallant“to mail coming into the country, especially where, as here, there is a representation on the package that it contains merchandise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Doe
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.