United States v. Painter’s Empirical Analysis
314 F.2d 939 · 1963
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably United States v. Allen (2007), United States v. Bakker (1991)
34 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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)
Relies on Pereira v. United States · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Durland v. United States · Kann v. United States · Parr 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o amount of honest belief that his corporate enterprise would eventually succeed can excuse the willful misrepresentations by which the investors' funds were obtained. An investor may be defrauded if his reliance is induced by deliberately false statements of fact, and the defendant's optimism as to the future is no defense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Conversion of money to the defendant’s private use was not an essential element to be proved by the Government, although evidence of such misappropriation is clearly relevant and admissible.”
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.