Butler v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.2d 214 · 1962
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Frank v. Maryland · Olender v. United States · Pitts v. United States · Sandez 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever, either individually or as an agent or officer of any person or corporation, in contemplation of a bankruptcy proceeding by or against him or any other person or corporation, or with intent to defeat the bankruptcy law, knowingly and fraudulently transfers or conceals any of his property or the property of such other person or corporation * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whoever knowingly and fraudulently makes a false oath or account in or in relation to any bankruptcy proceeding * *”
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.