United States v. Turley’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
888 federal appellate · 43 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,150 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Taylor v. United States (1990), Astoria Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Solimino (1991)
888 federal appellate · 43 district · 30 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 Bell v. United States · United States v. Carll · United States v. Bramblett · Jerome v. United States
Cited together with Morissette v. United States · Taylor v. United States · Glasser v. United States · Dickerson v. New Banner Institute, Inc. · Jerome 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 1,150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Stolen’ as used in 18 U.S.C. § 2312 includes all felonious takings of motor vehicles with intent to deprive the owner of the rights and benefits of ownership, regardless of whether or not the theft constitutes common-law larceny.””
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever transports in interstate or foreign commerce a motor vehicle or aircraft, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here a federal criminal statute uses a common-law term of established meaning without otherwise defining it, the general practice is to give that term its common-law meaning.”
9 later decisions 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.