United States v. Godel’s Empirical Analysis
361 F.2d 21 · 1966
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Freeman (1967), United States v. Laughman (1980)
48 federal appellate · 11 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Schaffer v. United States · Simon v. United States · Phelps v. United States · United States v. Pruitt
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial judge, who is after all `the only disinterested lawyer connected with the proceeding', has the duty to help make clear to the jury the facts and circumstances pertinent to the case. `He should not hesitate to ask questions for the purpose of developing the facts; and it is no ground of complaint that the facts so developed may hurt or help one side or the other'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] common purpose and plan may be inferred from a `development and collocation of circumstances.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not sufficient to present a jury question as to [their] guilt,”
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.