Ingram v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
737 federal appellate · 26 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 937 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Feola (1975), Anderson v. United States (1974)
737 federal appellate · 26 district · 27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedIngram v. United States (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 4401
Relies on Pereira v. United States · Spies v. United States · Krulewitch v. United States · Lutwak v. United States · Grunewald 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 937 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]onspiracy to commit a particular substantive offense cannot exist without at least the degree of criminal intent necessary for the substantive offense itself.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he life of the conspiracy cannot be extended by evidence of concealment after the conspiracy's criminal objectives have been fully accomplished.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(C)harges of conspiracy are not to be made out by piling inference upon inference.”
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.