United States v. Atchison’s Empirical Analysis
524 F.2d 367 · 1975
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2015
19 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993)
Relies on Russell v. United States · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · Corallo v. United States · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ransom or reward or otherwise any person, except in the case of a minor by the parent thereof, when: “(1) the person is willfully transported in interstate or foreign commerce; “(2) any such act against the person is done within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States; “(3) any such act against the person is done within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States as defined in section 101(32) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1301(32)); or “(4) the person is a foreign official as defined in section 1116(b) or an official guest as defined in section 1116(c)(4) of this title, shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life. “(b) With respect to subsection (a)(1), above, the failure to release the victim within twenty-four hours after he shall have been unlawfully seized, confined, inveigled, decoyed, kidnaped, abducted, or carried away shall create a rebuttable presumption that such person has been transported in interstate or foreign commerce. “(c) If two or more persons conspire to violate this section and one or more of such persons do any overt act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“we find no compelling correlation between the propriety of the ultimate purpose sought to be furthered by a kidnaping and the undesirability of the act of kidnaping itself”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.