Gregory v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.2d 104 · 1958
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Skilling v. United States (2010), Schreiber Distributing Co. v. Serv-Well Furniture Co. (1986)
79 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on Holland v. United States · Weiss v. United States · Shushan v. United States · Maytag Co. v. Apex Electrical Manufacturing Co. · Helton 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reflection of moral uprightness, of fundamental honesty, fair play and right dealing in the general and business life of members of society.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he thing which is condemned is (1) the forming of the scheme to defraud, however and in whatever form it may take, and (2) a use of [mail and wire communications] in its furtherance. If that is satisfied, more is not required.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * the better rule is that where the jury is properly instructed on the standards for reasonable doubt, such an additional instruction on circumstantial evidence is confusing and incorrect. 17”
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.