Silverman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
213 F.2d 405 · 1954
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably United States v. Bohonus (1980), United States v. Regent Office Supply Co. (1970)
67 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Durland v. United States · Harrison v. United States · Kaufmann v. United States · Fournier 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a scheme is devised with the intent to defraud, and the mails are used in executing the scheme, the fact that there is no misrepresentation of a single existing fact makes no difference. It is only necessary to prove that it is a scheme reasonably calculated to deceive persons of ordinary prudence and comprehension”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All testimony tending to show good faith on the part of the appellant [appellants] was admitted in evidence, and the court was very careful to charge the jury upon the subject of good faith”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably calculated to deceive persons of ordinary prudence and comprehension.”
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.