United States v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 697 · 1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2022
6 federal appellate · 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 18 U.S.C. § 2114
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Hullum v. United States · Ladner v. United States · United States v. Bell · 102 S. Ct. 969 - United States v. Security Industrial Bank
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Assault. — A person who assaults any person having lawful charge, control, or custody of any mail matter or of any money or other property of the United States, with intent to rob, steal, or purloin such mail matter, money, or other property of the United States, or robs or attempts to rob any such person of mail matter, or of any money, or other property of the United States, shall, for the first offense, be imprisoned not more than ten years; and if in effecting or attempting to effect such robbery he wounds the person having custody of such mail, money, or other property of the United States, or puts his life in jeopardy by the use of a dangerous weapon, or for a subsequent offense, shall be imprisoned not more than twenty-five years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. that [the victim] was assaulted; 2. that the assault was committed while [the victim] was in the lawful charge, control, and custody of United States mail matter, money, or other property; 3. that the assault was accompanied by an attempt to rob, purloin, or steal such mail matter, or other property of the United States; 4. that in attempting to effect the robbery, the perpetrator placed [the victim’s] life in danger by the use of a dangerous weapon; 5. that [the defendant/petitioner] was the person who committed the proscribed conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever assaults any person having lawful charge, control, or custody of any mail matter or of any money or other property of the United States, with intent to rob, steal, or purloin such mail matter, money, or other property of the United States, or robs any such person of mail matter, or of any money, or other property of the United States, shall ... be imprisoned....”
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.