United States v. Mustone’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.2d 970 · 1972
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011 · most notably California v. Greenwood (1988), State v. Hempele (1990)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 471 (Counterfeit Deterrence Act of 1992) · 18 U.S.C. § 472
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Katz v. United States · Bridwell v. United States · Shotwell Manufacturing Co. v. United States · 5 Cal. 3d 357 - People v. Krivda
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]mplicit in the concept of abandonment is a renunciation of any reasonable expectation of privacy in the property abandoned.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Brennan placed these bags on the sidewalk near some garbage cans ‘several doors away’ from 3A Union Street and then left the area. Both bags were tied closed. Kozak picked up these bags and deposited them in the Boston Secret Service office. When Agent Miller opened them the next morning he found a sheet of paper containing the impressions of three and one half counterfeit ten dollar notes and three aluminum offset plates stained with green ink. “Based primarily on this evidence government agents obtained a search warrant for 3A Union Street and on March 18 searched the premises. They found approximately $242,000 in printed but uncut counterfeit ten dollar notes, an offset press, a vertical camera, a platemaker, a black attache case containing plates used to print counterfeit notes, and a large quantity of other printing and photographic supplies. Isabarrone’s and Brennan’s fingerprints were found on objects inside the back room. All three appellants were arrested shortly thereafter.””
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.