Meyer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
220 F. 800 · 1915
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1996
9 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
Relies on United States v. Kissel · Brown v. C. T. Elliott · United States v. Irvine · United States v. Perot · Lonabaugh 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In contemplation of section 5440, R.S., a conspiracy may be entered into ‘to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose.’ The indictment is drawn under this clause. That a conspiracy attended with appropriate acts and conditions may consist of a continuing offense has been settled by adjudication of the Supreme Court. * * * It would seem, therefore, that so long as it may be shown that the conspirators are acting together for the common purpose comprehended by the scheme formed and entered upon with a view to defraud the government, and have, while so acting together, committed some overt act to effectuate the purpose, all within three years prior to the finding of the indictment, the statute has not run. * * * Our firm conviction is that public funds are not appropriated or converted while there is opportunity on the part of the government to prevent such appropriation, and in this case it was still within the power of the government to stop payment of this check, at least until credit was given for it by the bank of deposit * * * the acts of * * * negotiating this check and securing its payment by the government were acts not merely of private arrangement * * * but designed and calculated to effect the object * * * of the scheme * *”
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.