United States v. Drotar’s Empirical Analysis
416 F.2d 914 · 1969
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1981 · most notably Ravin v. State (1975), United States v. Kiffer (1973)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 · 26 U.S.C. § 7237
Relies on Robinson v. State of California · Trop v. Dulles · Stanley v. Georgia · Weems v. United States · Murphy v. Houma Well Service
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What we have said in no way infringes upon the power of the State or Federal Government to make possession of other items such as narcotics, firearms, or stolen goods, a crime. Our holding in the present case turns upon the Georgia statute’s infringement of fundamental liberty protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. No First Amendment rights are involved in most statutes making mere possession criminal.” Stanley , footnote 11 at 394 U.S. at 568 , 89 S.Ct. at 1249 , 22 L.Ed.2d at 551 .”
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.