United States v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
447 F.2d 283 · 1971
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2024
16 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. § 661
Relies on United States v. Turley · United States v. Handler · Crabb v. Zerbst · Mitchell 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, takes and carries away, with intent to steal or purloin, any personal property of another shall be punished . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“were not codifications of the common law crime of larceny but were intended to broaden that offense. To accomplish that purpose, the words “steal” and “purloin” were used instead of simply using the term “larceny” to describe the punishable offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“various federal statutes the word 'stolen' or 'steal' has been given a meaning broader than larceny at common law.”
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.