United States v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
451 F.2d 281 · 1971
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1343
Relies on Glasser v. United States · In re Disbarment of Gately · Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Huff v. United States · Ira Coleman Roberts, Billy O'Niel Hughes v. The United States of America
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Wire Fraud Statute does not require that the scheme be successful, or even that the victim be deceived. It need only be shown that there was a scheme and that interstate wires were 'used as a step in the execution of the scheme'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the purpose of executing such scheme”
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.