United States v. Scolnick’s Empirical Analysis
392 F.2d 320 · 1968
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably United States v. Burke (1975), United States v. Ravich (1970)
53 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 26 U.S.C. § 6331 · 26 U.S.C. § 6851 · 26 U.S.C. § 7212
Relies on Carroll v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Weeks v. United States · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Elkins 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The necessary premise for defendant’s assertions is that they are relevant factors in a trial where a defendant is charged with the criminal offense of rescuing property seized by the Service under the circumstances herein stated. . . . To permit such issues to be raised in connection with a prosecution under these statutes would be to encourage violent self help where' civil remedies are admittedly available. . . .” (Emphasis added.)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““6. Fact that evidence is illegally obtained exclusively by state officers does not automatically preclude its use in federal criminal trials.” “8. Federal officers are not required to comply with state statutes relating to searches of safety deposit boxes in order for evidence found therein to be admissible in federal prosecution.” “16. Once government has seized property belonging to defendant it has interest in such property so that defendant who takes such property from government’s possession could be found guilty of rescuing property seized by the government.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t) he test is one of federal law, neither enlarged by what one state court may have countenanced, nor diminished by what another may have colorably suppressed,”
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.