United States v. Lane Motor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 11 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 210 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably State v. Lilliock (1982), United States v. One 1974 Cadillac Eldorado Sedan, Serial No. 6L47S4Q407966 (1977)
114 federal appellate · 11 district · 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Lane Motor Co. (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Lane Motor Co. · United States v. One 1950 Ford Half-Ton Pickup Automobile Truck · United States v. One 1948 Plymouth Sedan
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 210 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not used in violating the revenue laws”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. had each been used by the operator of an illegal distillery to drive a number of miles from his home and then parked at a point one-half mile or more from the distillery, the operator walking the rest of the way. 344 U.S. at 630 , 73 S.Ct. at 460 .”
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.