Travis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
269 F.2d 928 · 1959
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1987 · most notably Killian v. United States (1962), Travis v. United States (1961)
62 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 50 U.S.C. § 844
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Alford v. United States · Jencks 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisonsed not more than five years, or both.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has the natural tendency to influence or was capable of influencing the decision of the officer or agent to whom it was submitted,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o require trial courts to suggest to the jury the inferences which may be drawn from the evidence would be to invite error.”
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.