Ogden v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
303 F.2d 724 · 1962
Citation profile
134 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Dennis v. United States (1966), Goldberg v. United States (1976)
134 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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. § 401 (§ 2 of the National Security Act of 1947) · 50 U.S.C. § 781 · 50 U.S.C. § 783 · 50 U.S.C. § 784
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Berger v. United States · Stirone v. United States · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Opper 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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[n]o ritual of words' is required, . . . the defendant must plainly tender to the Court the question of the producibility of the document at a time when it is possible for the Court to order it produced, or to make an appropriate inquiry”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ 18 U.S.C.A. § 1001 was intended to serve the vital public purpose of protecting governmental functions from frustration and distortion through deceptive practices, and it must not be construed as if its object were narrow and technical.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As to statements relating to the subject of potential government witnesses not yet heard, the defendant['s motion] was premature.”
2 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.