Dennison v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Stolen’ as used in 18 U.S.C. § 2312 , 18 U.S.C.A. § 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.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Mancuso · United States v. Chatham

2. ““Since the Turley ( 352 U.S. 407 , 77 S.Ct. 397 , 1 L.Ed.2d 430 ) definition, convictions have been affirmed where possession of a vehicle was obtained by means of a check drawn on a nonexistent business and on a bank where defendants had no account, Scott v. United States, 4 Cir., 1958, 255 F.2d 18 ; and where possession was obtained by a check drawn on an account with insufficient funds. Landwehr v. United States, 8 Cir. 1962, 304 F.2d 217 . Both of these cases turned on the defendants having obtained the automobiles by false pretenses. In neither case were the automobiles sold. It is true that Turley speaks in terms of purchasing an automobile with a worthless check, thereafter transporting it in interstate commerce with a subsequent sale but we hold that a sale is not an essential element of the crime. The question is whether appellant obtained the automobile by false pretenses with the criminal intent to deprive the rightful owner of the rights and benefits of ownership and thereafter transported it in interstate commerce. Cf. United States v. Oates, 4 Cir., 1963, 314 F.2d 593 . Here appellant obtained the vehicle by false pretenses and it was transported in interstate commerce.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Mancuso

3. “[Turley] in effect overruled the narrow construction which this court and others had previously given the statute by construing it to require common law larceny as a basis for conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Chatham