United States v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis
289 F.3d 976 · 2002
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Corley v. Rosewood Care Center, Inc. of Peoria (2004), United States v. Leahy (2006)
21 federal appellate ·
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) · 18 U.S.C. § 666
Relies on United States v. Yoon · United States v. Paneras · United States v. Hoover · United States v. Goot · United States v. Dack
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a wilful act by the defendant with the specific intent to deceive or cheat ...”
4 later decisions 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.