United States v. Queen’s Empirical Analysis
4 F.3d 925 · 1993
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Williamson (1995), United States v. Ghertler (2010)
58 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 1163 · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 153
Relies on Wellman v. Wellman · Herman v. Department of Treasury · United States v. Hill · United States v. Georgiadis · United States v. Lieberman
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] position of trust ... must be established from the perspective of the victim.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he extent to which the position provides the freedom to commit a diffieult-to-detect wrong, and whether an abuse could be simply or readily noticed; defendant’s duties as compared to those of other employees; defendant’s level of specialized knowledge; defendant’s level of authority in the position; and the level of public trust.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to penalize defendants who take advantage of a position that provides them freedom to commit or conceal a difficult-to-detect wrong.”
5 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.