United States v. Bottone’s Empirical Analysis
365 F.2d 389 · 1966
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2014 · most notably Dowling v. United States (1985), Bottone v. United States (1966)
77 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Massiah v. United States · Lawn 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trier is entitled, in fact bound to consider the evidence as a whole, and, in law as in life, the effect of this generally is much greater than the sum of the parts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the transformation of the information in the stolen papers into a tangible object never possessed by the original owner should be deemed immaterial” where”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)o be sure, where no tangible objects were ever taken or transported, a court would be hard pressed to conclude that 'goods' had been stolen and transported within the meaning of § 2314.”
2 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.