United States v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
108 F. 621 · 1900
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1965
3 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That every person who with intent to defraud either the United States, or any person, falsely assumes or pretends to be an officer or employé acting' under the authority of the United States, or any department or any officer of the government thereof, and who shall take upon himself to act as such, or who shall in such pretended character, demand or obtain from any person;, or from the United States, or any department or any officer of the government thereof, any money, paper document, or other valuable thing, shall be deemed guilty,” etc.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The elements of this offense, in my opinion, are more comprehensive, and do not limit the wrongful act io such as extracting money or property from another under the guise of asserting a claim due to the United States, which it is the duty of the offender, in Iris pretended official character, to assert, but includes the holding of one’s self out as such officer or employé for the purpose, among other things, of giving him such a credit or standing as will enable him to successfully demand or otherwise obtain money from another for his own private use and benefit, with the intetit to defraud.””
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.