United States v. Gonsalves’s Empirical Analysis
435 F.3d 64 · 2006
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably 135 S. Ct. 2443 - City of L. A. v. Patel (2015), United States v. Godin (2008)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 United States v. Booker · Whren v. United States · Shepard v. United States · Patterson v. United States · Allied-Bruce Terminix Cos., Inc. v. Dobson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Willfulness .... means nothing more in this context than that the defendant knew that his statement was false when he made it or— which amounts in law to the same thing— consciously disregarded or averted his eyes from its likely falsity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“call[s] attention to the testifying defendant's interest in the [case] outcome,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hatever the status of the [medical] profession in the abstract,”
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.