Shepherd v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
191 F.2d 682 · 1951
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1970
7 federal appellate ·
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. § 912 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Lepowitch · Elliott v. Hudspeth
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute defines two separate and distinct offenses, one, the assuming and pretending to be an officer or employee acting under the authority of the United States and taking it upon himself to act as such, the other, in such pretended character, demanding or obtaining any money, paper, document, or other valuable thing.” See also Graham v. Squier (C.C.A.9), 145 F.2d 348 ; Shepherd v. United States (C.C.A.10), 191 F.2d 682 , 683; Kane v. United States (C.C.A.8), 120 F.2d 990 , 993; Pierce v. United States (C.C.A.6), 86 F.2d 949 , 951; United States v. Taylor (D.C.8), 108 F. 621 ; United States v. Carr, D.C., 194 F.Supp. 144 .”
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.