United States v. Maze’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1,174 federal appellate · 83 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,653 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Schmuck v. United States (1989), Davis v. United States (1974)
1,174 federal appellate · 83 district · 21 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
reviewedUnited States v. Maze (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1643 (§ 133 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1644 (§ 134 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1701 (Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 891
Relies on Benton v. Maryland · Pereira v. United States · Eisenstadt v. Baker · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n
Cited together with Pereira v. United States · Kann v. United States · Parr v. United States · Schmuck v. United States · United States v. Sampson
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 1,653 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“designed to lull the victims into a false sense of security, postpone their ultimate complaint to the authorities, and therefore make the apprehension of the defendants less likely than if no mailings had taken place.”
76 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“incident to an essential part of the scheme.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“sufficiently closely related to respondent's scheme to bring his conduct within the statute.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.