United States v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.3d 439 · 2003
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably United States v. Fuchs (2006), United States v. Partida (2004)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1344 · 18 U.S.C. § 1347 (§ 242 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 24 (§ 241 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3663
Relies on United States v. Olano · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Cotton · United States v. Gaudin · Collins v. Youngblood
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice— (1) to defraud any health care benefit program; or (2) to obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, any of the money or property owned by, or under the custody or control of, any health care benefit program, in connection with the delivery of or payment for health care benefits, items, or services, shall be [punished].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the health care fraud statute, § 1347, punishes executions or attempted executions of schemes to defraud, and not simply acts in furtherance of the scheme.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an act was done with a conscious purpose to violate the law.”
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.