Kramer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.2d 837 · 1969
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably United States v. Leach (1970), United States v. Cole (1972)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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. § 2313
Relies on Perez v. United States · Drews v. Maryland · Magenau v. Aetna Freight Lines, Inc. · Beigel v. United States · Skibs v. Otis McAlLister & Co.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have held repeatedly that possession in one state of property recently stolen in another state, if not satisfactorily explained, is ordinarily a circumstance from which the jury may reasonably draw the inference and find that the person in possession not only knew it to be stolen property, but also transported or caused it to be transported in interstate commerce.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A federal judge may ask questions and has the prerogative of commenting directly on witnesses and their testimony. . . It is only when a judge becomes an advocate for one party that he oversteps the bounds of propriety in directing and governing the conduct of the trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a common term used in everyday conversation that has not acquired any artful meaning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Schmidt · Regan v. State
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.