Jerome v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
318 U.S. 101 · 1943
Citation profile
255 federal appellate · 32 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 721 later decisions (59 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. (1957), Screws v. United States (1945)
255 federal appellate · 32 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Jerome (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 715B · 18 U.S.C. § 541 · 18 U.S.C. § 8
Relies on Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · United States v. Lanza · Helvering v. Stuart · Hebert v. State of Louisiana
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 721 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the absence of a plain indication to the contrary, ... Congress when it enacts a statute is not making the application of the federal act dependent on state law.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever takes and carries away, with intent to steal or purloin, any property or money or any other thing of value exceeding $100 belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of any bank, or any savings and loan association, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Prior to 1934 banks organized or operating under federal law were protected against embezzlement and like offenses by R.S. 5209, 40 Stat. 972 , 12 U.S.C. § 592 , 12 U.S.C.A. § 592 . But such crimes as robbery, burglary, and larceny directed against such banks were punishable only under state law. By 1934 great concern had been expressed over interstate operations by gangsters against banks — activities with which local authorities were frequently unable to cope. H.Rep. No. 1461, 73d Cong., 2d Sess., p. 2. The Attorney General in response to that concern recommended legislation embracing certain new federal offenses. S. 2841, 73d Cong., 2d Sess. And see 78 Cong.Rec. 5738. Sec. 3 of that bill made it a federal crime to break into or attempt to break into such banks with intent to commit ‘any offense defined by this Act, or any felony under any law of the United States or under any law of the State, District, Territory, or possession’ in which the bank was located. Sec. 2 made it an offense to take or attempt to take money or property belonging to or in the possession of such a bank without its consent or with its consent obtained ‘by any trick, artifice, fraud, or false or fraudulent representation’. This bill was reported favorably by the Senate Judiciary Committee (S.Rep. No. 537, 73d Cong., 2d Sess.) and passed the Senate. 78 Cong.Rec. 5738. The House Judiciary Committee, however, struck out § 2, dealing with larceny, and § 3, dealing with burglary. H.Rep. No. 1461, supra, ”
3 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.