United States v. Gilliland’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 86 · 1941
Citation profile
529 federal appellate · 71 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 824 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. C. M. Joiner Leasing Corp. (1943), United States v. Bramblett (1955)
529 federal appellate · 71 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
Relies on Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan · United States v. Borden Co. · Posadas v. National City Bank · Hammerschmidt 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 824 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to protect the authorized functions of governmental departments and agencies from the perversion which might result from the deceptive practices described.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statute based upon the broad public policy against the making of false statements in any matters within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States.”
7 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.