Meredith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
238 F.2d 535 · 1956
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2006 · most notably United States v. Provenzano (1964), Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham (1963)
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Pereira v. United States · Coffin v. United States · United States v. Giles · Transportation Line v. Hope · Builders Steel Co. v. Commissioner
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[it] need only be established that the act constituting the offense was in fact committed by someone.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining any loan or advance of credit from any person, partnership, association, or corporation with the intent that such loan or advance of credit shall be offered to or accepted by the Federal Housing Administration for insurance, or for the purpose of obtaining any extension or renewal of any loan, advance of credit, or mortgage insured by such Administration, or the acceptance, release, or substitution of any security on such a loan, advance of credit, or for the purpose of influencing in any way the action of such Administration, makes, passes, utters, or publishes any statement, knowing the same to be false, or alters, forges, or counterfeits any instrument, paper, or document, or utters, publishes, or passes as true any instrument, paper, or document, knowing it to have been altered, forged, or counterfeited, or willfully overvalues any security, asset, or income, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. June 25, 1948, c. 645, 62 Stat. 751 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever, being an officer (or) director . . . of any . . . insured bank . . . makes any false entry in any book, report or statement of such bank with intent to injure or defraud such bank . . . or to deceive any officer of such bank . . . or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. . . . Shall be fined no more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
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.