Cummings v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
398 F.2d 377 · 1968
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1983
15 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. § 495
Relies on Malloy v. Hogan · Stirone v. United States · Bram v. United States · Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. · United States v. Sealy, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever utters or publishes as true any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, with intent to defraud the United States, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited [shall be fined or imprisoned].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“free and voluntary: that is, [it] must not be extracted by any sort of threats or violence, nor obtained by any direct or implied promises, however slight, nor by the exertion of any improper influence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
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.