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275 F.2d 281 · 1960

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
June 2006
most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 2 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably United States v. Prudential Insurance Company (1991), United States ex rel. Joseph v. Cannon (1981)

11 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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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 Brownell v. Stjepan Bozo Carija · United States of America, Ex Rel. Mildred B. McCans and Mildred B. McCans on Her Own Behalf v. Armour and Company, a Corporation · United States Ex Rel. McCans v. Armour & 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(p)rior to the filing of this suit, plaintiff-relator disclosed substantially all of the evidence in his possession to the Attorney General of the United States, by registered mail dated Feb. 10, 1976 . . . and certified mail dated August 4, 1977.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the essential information upon which the suit was predicated was in the possession of the United States prior to the filing of the suit.”
    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.