United States v. Grainger’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Moore v. United States (1965), Armstrong v. United States (1965)
47 federal appellate · 12 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
Relies on United States v. Borden Co. · United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. · United States v. Kissel · United States v. Hark · United States v. Scharton
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the United States is at war the running of any statute of limitations applicable to any offense (1) involving fraud or attempted fraud against the United States or any agency thereof in any manner, whether by conspiracy or not, or (2) committed in connection with the acquisition, care, handling, custody, control or disposition of any real or personal property of the United States * * * shall be suspended until three years after the termination of hostilities as proclaimed by the President * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We believe that Congress sought by its phrase “involving fraud ... in any manner” to make the Suspension Act applicable to all offenses which are fairly identifiable as those in which fraud is an essential ingredient, by whatever words they be defined, and that Congress did not seek to limit its applicability to such of those identifiable offenses as also are labeled with a particular symbol.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When the United States is at war the running of any statute of limitations applicable to any offense (1) involving fraud or attempted fraud against the United States or any' agency thereof- in any manner * * * shall be suspended until three years after the termination of hostilities as proclaimed by the President - * * * ””
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.