United States v. Diamond’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.2d 688 · 1970
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably United States v. Flannery (1971), United States v. Beecroft (1979)
62 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Quercia v. United States · Williamson v. United States · Boesche v. Udall · Bursten v. United States · Johnson v. United States
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.
“liberal policy as to the admission of evidence tending to prove good or bad faith . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]omplimentary letters may very well be an indication that the fraud is succeeding rather than an indicia of good intent. In view of the wide latitude accorded trial courts in the determination of relevancy of evidence we cannot say that there was an abuse of discretion in this instance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he court must entrust to the jury the task of sifting the evidence and the ability to reach a reasonable conclusion upon the question of intent to defraud.”
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.