United States v. Trapilo’s Empirical Analysis
130 F.3d 547 · 1997
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Pasquantino v. United States (2005), United States v. Frega (1999)
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · McNally v. United States · Chapman v. United States · United States v. Feola · Henderson v. Brown
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hese cases teach, as the [wire fraud] statute plainly states, what is proscribed is use of the telecommunication systems of the United States in furtherance of a scheme whereby one intends to defraud another of property.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]t the heart of this indictment is the misuse of the wires in furtherance of a scheme to defraud the Canadian government of tax revenue, not the validity of a foreign sovereign's revenue laws.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ur goal is simply to vindicate the intended purpose of the statue, that is, 'to prevent the use of [our telecommunication systems] in furtherance of fraudulent enterprises.'”
4 later decisions 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.