Bruce v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
73 F.2d 972 · 1934
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 1982 · most notably Barfield v. United States (1956), United States v. Bucur (1952)
26 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
Relies on Burdeau v. McDowell · Collins v. State · Drew v. United States · Niederluecke v. United States · 8 Okla. Crim. 130 - Fowler v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * It is well established that the unexplained possession of stolen property shortly after the theft is sufficient to justify the conclusion by a jury of knowledge by the possessor that the property was stolen. * * *”
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.