United States v. Giles’s Empirical Analysis
300 U.S. 41 · 1937
Citation profile
115 federal appellate · 7 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 225 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. C. M. Joiner Leasing Corp. (1943), United States v. Brown (1948)
115 federal appellate · 7 district · 32 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 550
Relies on United States v. Gooding · United States v. Corbett · C. H. Murphy v. Turman Oil Company · People v. Lewis
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 225 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Words] should be given their fair meaning in accord with the evident intent of Congress.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The rule often announced, that criminal statutes must be strictly construed does not require that the words of an enactment be given their narrowest meaning, or that the law-maker’s evident intent be disregarded. United States v. Corbett, 215 U. S. 233 ,...... ‘Congress was not seeking to punish the ignorant bookkeeper who copies items into the books as part of his daily task, but the officers who conceived and carried out the fraudulent scheme which the false entry was designed to conceal. It is wholly immaterial whether such officer acts through a pen or a clerk .controlled by him.” ‘It seems to us that defendant is as fully responsible for any false entries which necessarily result from the presentation of these pieces of paper which he caused to be prepared as he would if he had given oral instructions in reference to them or had written them himself.’......The record leaves us in no doubt that the false entries on the ledger were the intended and necessary result of respondent’s deliberate action in withholding the deposit tickets. Within the statute he made them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The evidence in the record conclusively shows that defendant neither made the false entries nor did anything that could be considered as a direction to the bookkeeper to make them. Without the charge that he caused the entries to be made he could not have been convicted. Id. at 47 , 57 S.Ct. at 343 .”
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.