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United States v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis

636 F.2d 96 · 1981

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
August 2010
most recently cited

20 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Carroll v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Chadwick · Arkansas v. Sanders · Beck 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “As a general rule, it is reasonable to infer that a person ordinarily intends all the natural and probable consequence of acts knowingly done or knowingly omitted. So, unless the evidence in the case leads the jury to a different or contrary conclusion, the jury may draw the inference and find that the accused intended all the natural and probable consequences which one, standing in like circumstances, and possessing like knowledge should reasonably have expected to result from any act knowingly done or knowingly omitted by the accused.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “lying with a corresponding indifference toward any expectation of privacy, in full view on the front floorboard”
    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.