United States v. George’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.2d 508 · 1973
Citation profile
130 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably McNally v. United States (1987), Skilling v. United States (2010)
130 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on H. K. Porter Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · United States v. S. Lawrence Kahn, Arthur B. Sachs and M. Prial Curran · Shushan v. United States · Kahn 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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A man is none the less cheated out of his property, when he is induced to part with it by fraud, because he gets a quid pro quo of equal value.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]ot every breach of a fiduciary duty works a criminal fraud.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since the gravamen of the offense is a 'scheme to defraud,' it is unnecessary that the Government allege or prove that the victim of the scheme was actually defrauded or suffered a loss.”
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.