United States v. Neifert-White Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
187 federal appellate · 88 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 621 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. United States Ex Rel. Stevens (2000), Kessing v. National Mortgage Corporation (1971)
187 federal appellate · 88 district · 9 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 714B · 15 U.S.C. § 714M · 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 287 · 31 U.S.C. § 3729 (False Claims Act)
Relies on United States Marcus v. Hess · Rainwater v. United States · United States v. McNinch · United States v. Cohn
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 621 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intended to reach all types of fraud, without qualification, that might result in financial loss to the Government.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reaches beyond 'claims' which might be legally enforced, to all fraudulent attempts to cause the Government to pay out sums of money.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 3490. “Any person not in the military or naval forces of the United States, or in the militia called into or actually employed in the service of the United States, who shall do or commit any of the acts prohibited by any of the provisions of section fifty-four hundred and thirty-eight, Title ‘CRIMES,’ shall forfeit and pay to the United States the sum of two thousand dollars, and, in addition, double the amount of damages which the United States may have sustained by reason of the doing or committing such act, together with the costs of suit; and such forfeiture and damages shall be sued for in the same suit.” § 5438. “Every person who makes or causes to be made, or presents or causes to be presented, for payment or approval, to or by any person or officer in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, any claim upon or against the Government of the United States, or any department or officer thereof, knowing such claim to be false, fictitious, or fraudulent, or who, for the purpose of obtaining or aiding to obtain the payment or approval of such claim, makes, uses, or causes to be made or used, any false bill, receipt, voucher, roll, account, claim, certificate, affidavit, or deposition, knowing the same to contain any fraudulent or fictitious statement or entry, or who enters into any agreement, combination, or conspiracy to defraud the Government of the United States, or any department or officer thereof, by obtaining or aiding to obtain the payment or al”
10 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.