United States v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
437 F.2d 1160 · 1971
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably United States v. Vaccaro (1987), United States v. Anderson (1976)
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2314
Relies on Powell v. Texas · United States v. Sheridan · Pope v. United States · Pope v. United States · Wade 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no requirement . . . that the accused know, foresee, or intend that instrumentalities of interstate commerce will be used.”
3 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.