United States v. Prince’s Empirical Analysis
214 F.3d 740 · 2000
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Warshak (2010), United States v. Blackwell (2006)
82 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 1957 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 287 · 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974)
Relies on Koon v. United States · Kahn v. Grant · In re Martin-Trigona · Payless Wholesale Distributor, Inc. v. Albert Culver (P.R.) Inc. · Great State Beverages, Inc. v. Wenners
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) use of funds that are proceeds of unlawful activity; (2) knowledge that the funds are proceeds of unlawful activity; and (3) conduct or attempt to conduct a financial transaction, knowing that the transaction is designed in whole or in part to disguise the ... source, ownership or control of the proceeds.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A scheme to defraud includes any plan or course of action by which someone intends to deprive another by deception of money — deprive another by deception of money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Carelessness or negligence or foolishness on his part is not the same as knowledge and is not enough to convict.”
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.