United States v. Egger’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.2d 1179 · 1972
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2004
18 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Sherman v. United States · Brown v. Board of Education · 55 Cal. 2d 252 - People v. Rojas · Earl D. Greene v. United States of America, John Becker v. United States of America, Mike A. Thomas v. United States · United States v. Witt
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The FBI never assumed 'actual, physical possession' of the stolen property. To be sure, a government agent traveled with Beverly, counted the money, and recorded serial numbers, but these actions were performed as a form of observation and surveillance rather than as possession on behalf of the rightful owner. The stolen money was not being returned to its owner when the government agent counted the money instead of asking Beverly to count the bills and call out their serial numbers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the actual, physical possession of stolen property has been recovered by the owner or his agent, its character as stolen property is lost, and the subsequent delivery of the property by the owner or agent to a particeps criminis, for the purpose of entrapping him as the receiver of stolen goods, does not establish the crime, for in a legal sense he does not receive stolen property. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because of the cooperation of Beverly Lehman with agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation the money received by Egger had lost its character as stolen money and was, instead, 'recovered' property under the rule of United States v. Cohen, 274 F. 596 (3d Cir. 1921).”
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.