United States v. Petti’s Empirical Analysis
459 F.2d 294 · 1972
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2002
13 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Stirone v. United States · Pauling v. McElroy · Moore v. United States · United States v. De Cavalcante · United States v. De Normand
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.
“embezzles, steals, or unlawfully takes, carries away, or conceals, or by fraud or deception”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ine distinctions between common-law larceny and embezzlement are inapplicable to the consolidated statutory offense”
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.