United States v. Erhardt’s Empirical Analysis
381 F.2d 173 · 1967
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably United States v. Rodgers (1984), Hubbard v. United States (1995)
24 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · United States v. Bramblett · Weiler v. United States · Campbell v. United States · United States v. Marchisio
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are certain that neither Congress nor the Supreme Court intended the statute to include traditional trial tactics within the statutory terms ‘conceals or covers up.’ We hold only, on the authority of the Supreme Court construction, that the statute does apply to the type of action * * * which essentially involved the ‘administrative’ or ‘housekeeping’ functions, not the ‘judicial’ machinery of the court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because § 1001 does not apply to the introduction of false documents as evidence in a criminal proceeding.”
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.