Lancey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
356 F.2d 407 · 1966
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Branzburg v. Hayes (1972), United States v. Daddano (1970)
25 federal appellate · 4 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 · 18 U.S.C. § 3 · 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 4 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company v. United States · Grigsby v. Reib · Shelton v. Belknap · United States v. Perlstein · United States v. Farrar
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the principal had committed and completed the felony alleged, (2) the accused had full knowledge of that fact, (3) the accused failed to notify the authorities, and (4) the accused took an affirmative step to conceal the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wilson
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.