United States v. Louis E. Wolfson, Elkin B. Gerbert, Joseph Kosow and Marshal G. Staub’s Empirical Analysis
437 F.2d 862 · 1970
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably United States v. Lighte (1986), United States v. Bonacorsa (1976)
25 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
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Krulewitch v. United States · Russell v. United States · Alford v. United States · Grunewald 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n a prosecution for perjury or false representation, absent fundamental ambiguity of the kind found in Lattimore, the question of what a defendant meant when he made his representation will normally be for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus it would appear that the jury had before it the very material purportedly taken out of the case and upon which they could place a criminal connotation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no issue about fraudulent stock sales here and there is no 10b-5 issue.”
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.