United States v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.2d 1063 · 1977
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably United States v. Martinson (1987), United States v. Hubbard (1980)
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Cogen v. United States · United States v. Wilson · United States v. Palmer
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile we wholeheartedly approve [of] the proposition that victims of crime should have compensation from the criminal, we feel that even at the cost of judicial time it is preferable to accomplish this end through traditional judicial procedures rather than to leave it to the police, state or federal, to find nonjudicial ways and means by which to secure compensation from the criminal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n absence of any cognizable claim of ownership or right to possession adverse to that of appellant, the district court should have . . . returned to him the money taken from him by government seizure.”
3 later decisions 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.