Di Bella v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1,099 federal appellate · 46 district · 223 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,824 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Abney v. United States (1977), Brown Shoe Co. v. United States (1962)
1,099 federal appellate · 46 district · 223 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDi Bella v. United States (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 28 U.S.C. § 1252 · 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Catlin v. United States · Cobbledick v. United States · Burdeau v. McDowell · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n
Cited together with Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Cobbledick v. United States · Abney v. United States · United States v. Ryan · Carroll 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 1,824 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nly if the motion is solely for return of property and is in no way tied to a criminal prosecution in esse against the movant.”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because 'the delays and disruptions attendant upon intermediate appeal,' which the rule is designed to avoid, 'are especially inimical to the effective and fair administration of the criminal law.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This insistence on finality and prohibition of piecemeal review discourage undue litigiousness and leaden-footed administration of justice, particularly damaging to the conduct of criminal cases.”
14 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.