Marshall v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.2d 1013 · 1965
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1998
15 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. § 2113
Relies on Chapman v. United States · Rugendorf v. United States · Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Burge 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““None of this, however, is meant to mean that a man’s briefcase is never secure against unreasonable search and seizure, but when possession and control of his briefcase is given by a man to another person we think that man accepts the risk that the other person will consent to a search and seizure of it and, under the circumstances that exist in this case, such consent is valid. * * * (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he appellant voluntarily delivered possession and control of his briefcase to his landlady for safekeeping ....”
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.