Powell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
418 F.2d 470 · 1969
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2005 · most notably Burks v. United States (1978), United States v. Staten (1978)
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 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
Relies on Curley v. United States · Crawford v. United States · Commissioner v. Singer Sewing Machine Co. · Austin v. United States · Cephus 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assume the truth of the Government's evidence and give the Government the benefit of all legitimate inferences to be drawn therefrom.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“determine whether upon the evidence, giving full play to the right of the jury to determine credibility, weigh the evidence, and draw justifiable inferences of fact, a reasonable mind might fairly conclude guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. That a person took a motor vehicle or that he used, operated, or removed it from any place, or that he caused it to be taken, used, operated, or removed from any place; 2. That he operated it, drove it, or caused it to be operated or driven for his own profit, use or purpose; 3. That he did so without the consent of the owner or some other person empowered to consent in the owner’s behalf; and 4.That at the time the defendant took, used, operated, or removed the vehicle or caused it to be taken, used, operated or removed he knew that he did so without the consent of the owner or some other person empowered to consent in the owner’s behalf.”
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.