Levi v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
71 F.2d 353 · 1934
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 1988 · most notably Barfield v. United States (1956), Hale v. United States (1969)
34 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Wilson v. United States · Illinois Central Railroad v. Fuentes · Grimsley v. United States · Niederluecke 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Possession of goods recently stolen justifies the inference that the possessor has guilty knowledge of the theft, in the absence of explanatory facts or circumstances consistent with his innocence. Wilson v. United States, 162 U.S. 613 , 16 S.Ct. 895 , 40 L.Ed. 1090 . * * * Under these circumstances, surely it was for the jury to say whether such explanation as he gave was true or false. * * * ” (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.