Twining v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
141 F. 41 · 1905
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1988 · most notably United States v. Giles (1937), Thomas v. Taylor (1912)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Coffin v. United States · Wiborg v. United States · Clyatt 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No. 4. “Entries in the books of a national bank which correctly record actual transactions of the bank as they occur, are not false entries within the meaning of the indictment against the defendant although the transactions recorded may have been unauthorized, and after considering all the evidence and circumstances, if you entertain a reasonable doubt as to whether the entries charged to be false, correctly recorded actual transactions, you should acquit the defendant on the counts of the indictment charging the making of false entries in the books of the bank.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the making of a false entry is a concrete offense, which is not committed where the transaction entered actually took place, and is entered exactly as it occurred,”
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.