United States v. Berlin’s Empirical Analysis
472 F.2d 1002 · 1973
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably United States v. Tramunti (1974), United States v. Hooker (1988)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 1010 · 18 U.S.C. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on United States v. Deaton · Robinson v. United States · United States v. Roach · United States v. Lamont
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his deficiency was not cured by the fact that each count cited the statute that appellant is alleged to have violated. Although the statutes in question explicitly require knowledge of the falsity, if this were enough to cure a deficient statement, then almost no indictment would be vulnerable to attack; for it is a common practice in indictments to cite the statute that is alleged to have been violated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“meant about the same thing as knowledge. Id. at 1007. This court rejected the government's argument: 57 With this argument we cannot agree. One can counsel and cause another to utter a statement that one only later learns to be untrue. Therefore, Berlin's knowledge of the falsity at the time he caused the statements to be made is not necessarily implied from the allegation that he”
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.