State v. Bridgeforth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably State v. Averyt (1994), In Re Paul M. (2000)
29 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on United States v. Bailey · California Department of Transportation v. Naegele Outdoor Advertising Co. of California · Kent v. Sanborn Cooperative Grain Co. · United States v. Pearlstein · State v. Via
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute is violated by one who makes false representations to obtain a benefit with knowledge of the fraudulent scheme and in furtherance of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garvin v. Greenbank“false pretenses, representations, promises or material omissions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garvin v. Greenbank
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.