United States v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
457 F.2d 396 · 1972
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2001
22 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. § 1702 · 18 U.S.C. § 1708
Relies on Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. · Rosen v. United States · Flick-Reedy Corp. v. Hydro-Line Manufacturing Co. · United States v. Hines · Smith 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the statute ... was broadly conceived to assure the proper functioning of the postal system.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... While construing ‘mail route’ or ‘mail’ in the broadest sense might render some of the remaining portions of the statute superfluous in whole or in part, we see no need to go that far here. All we hold is that ‘mail route’ and ‘mail’ have an independent significance apart from mail box or receptacle; the former term at least includes a place such as an addressee’s doorstep where mail is left by the letter carrier, and the latter term includes the letter so stolen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] letter shown to have been “properly mailed and never received by the addressee, but found in quite improper and misusing hands, can be found to have been stolen from the mails in the absence of any other explanation being proffered.”. . . When such facts are established it is reasonable to assume that the letter was stolen rather than inadvertently lost or misplaced by postal officials.”
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.