Logsdon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.2d 12 · 1958
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently October 1995 · most notably Hernandez v. United States (1962), United States v. Frost (1990)
77 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Morissette v. United States · Allen v. United States · Nye & Nissen v. United States · United States v. Peoni · United States v. Britton
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reckless disregard of the interests of the Bank, as shown by the evidence in this case, was sufficient to warrant a finding by the jury of an intent to injure or defraud the Bank.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not enough that the appellant may have willfully created the occasion or the opportunity for the cashier's [i.e., the principal's] misapplication of the funds, even though the appellant [causer] may have foreseen these consequences of his own misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the crucial issue in the case would seem to be whether appellant knew that the cashier was paying his checks out of the bank's funds and hiding the checks away,”
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.