Lemon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
278 F.2d 369 · 1960
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably United States v. Halbert (1981), United States v. Bohonus (1980)
38 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on Gregory v. United States · Toliver v. United States · United States v. Sylvanus · Kreuter 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is immaterial whether only the most gullible would have been deceived”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the wire-fraud statute`protects the naive as well as the worldy-wise, and the former are more in need of protection than the latter. As a matter of fact, . . . the lack of guile on the part of those solicited may itself point with persuasion to the fraudulent character of the artifice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“protects the naive as well as the worldlywise, and the former are more in need of protection than the latter. As a matter of fact, . . . the lack of guile on the part of those solicited may itself point with persuasion to the fraudulent character of the artifice.”
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.