United States v. McKee’s Empirical Analysis
220 F.2d 266 · 1955
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Poliafico v. United States (1956), United States v. Costello (1955)
26 federal appellate · 1 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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 545 · 19 U.S.C. § 1553 (Tariff Act of 1930)
Relies on Lutwak v. United States · Braverman v. United States · Bridges v. United States · United States v. Manton · Leviton Et Al. 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he 1954 amendment to 18 U.S.C. § 545 , which deleted the word “revenue” from “intent to defraud the revenue of the United States” indicated that the primary Congressional purpose behind the Act was not to raise revenue but to supervise and regulate the inflow of imported goods. [Thus,] in light of the Act’s purpose [, it is] no longer necessary to show that the item or items introduced clandestinely into the United States were subject to duty in order to prove a violation of the Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowingly and willfully, with intent to defraud the United States, smuggles, or clandestinely introduces or attempts to smuggle or clandestinely introduce into the United States any merchandise which should have been invoiced, or makes out or passes, or attempts to pass, through the customhouse any false, forged, or fraudulent invoice, or other document or paper....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“intent to defraud the revenue of the United States”
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.