Teel v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
407 F.2d 604 · 1969
Citation profile
31 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2000 · most notably United States v. Warner (1970), United States v. Pope (1969)
31 federal appellate ·
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. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on Kirby v. United States · Clewis v. Texas · Metropolitan Ry Co v. Church Brightwood Ry Co · Sewell v. United States · Aron 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“You are instructed that possession of property recently stolen, if not satisfactorily explained, is a circumstance from which you, the jury, may reasonably draw the inference and find, in the light of the surrounding circumstances shown by the evidence in the ease, if you so find, that the person in possession knew the property had been stolen. * * * * * * Possession may be satisfactorily explained by facts and circumstances in evidence independent of any testimony or other evidence from any accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““the length of possession along with all the other facts and circumstances, * * * the type and kind of property, the amount or volume thereof, the ease or difficulty with which it may be assimilated into legitimate trade channels, including the circumstances under which the property is alleged to have been acquired.””
1 later decision 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.