Weinstock v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
231 F.2d 699 · 1956
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Kungys v. United States (1988), United States v. Rigas (2007)
80 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
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 Dennis v. United States · Sinclair v. United States · Sacher v. United States · United States v. Gilliland · Federal Power Commission v. Idaho Power Co.
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] concealment or misrepresentation is material if it ‘has a natural tendency to influence or was capable of influencing, the decision of the decision making body to which it was addressed ... We hold, therefore, that the test of whether Kungys’ concealments or misrepresentations were material is whether they had a natural tendency to influence the decisions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'has a natural tendency to influence, or [is] capable of influencing, the decision of the tribunal in making a determination required to be made.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... does not limit the offense to formal statements, to written statements, or to statements under oath. It applies to ‘any false or fraudulent statements or representations, ... in any matter with the jurisdiction of any department or agency 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.