Allison v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
348 F.2d 152 · 1965
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably Wheeler v. United States (1967), Robert Charles Maguire v. United States of America, Charles Russel Giles v. United States (1966)
56 federal appellate · 1 district · 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. § 2312
Relies on Dardi v. United States · Barfield v. United States · Fitts v. United States · Pearson v. United States · Glover v. United States
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The basis of the inferences is the possession of the vehicle. Absent possession no inference may be drawn. As used in this context the term pos session means actual control, dominion or authority. 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Proof that an accused is in possession of a vehicle recently stolen in another state sustains the inferences that he knew the vehicle was stolen and that he transported it in interstate commerce. 1”
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.