Pearson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
378 F.2d 555 · 1967
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably United States v. Licavoli (1979), Norman v. State (1979)
19 federal appellate · 6 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2313 · 18 U.S.C. § 2315
Relies on Sorrells v. United States · McNally v. Hill · Schwachter v. United States · Henderson v. United States · Rodriguez 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is recognized that the interstate movement of a car does not necessarily cease when the car stops and transportation of it into the other state ends. The sale thereafter may be an incident to the theft and transportation and so tied up with it as to constitute the final step of a continuous unlawful scheme.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“which is the product of the creative activity of its own officials”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.