United States v. Hopkins’s Empirical Analysis
357 F.2d 14 · 1966
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Broadway (1973), United States v. Van Dyke (1979)
39 federal appellate · 1 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 Glasser v. United States · Pereira v. United States · 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`It must . . . be borne in mind that the question of intent is generally considered to be one of fact to be resolved by the trier of the facts . . . and the determination thereof should not be lightly overturned.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is sufficient that the use of the mails was caused by the defendant in furtherance of the fraudulent scheme.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There was sales talk, yes — there were exaggerations. But they were made to people who had seen the machines and could presumably know their own capabilities. That both salesmen and purchasers were mistaken as to this does not spell out an intent to deceive.”
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.