Carpenter v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
754 federal appellate · 101 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,461 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Basic Inc. v. Levinson (1988), Schmuck v. United States (1989)
754 federal appellate · 101 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Carpenter (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on McNally v. United States · Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co. · Energy Cooperative, Inc. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · International News Service v. Associated Press
Cited together with McNally v. United States · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Schmuck v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Jackson v. Virginia
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 1,461 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“McNally did not limit the scope of Sec. 1341 to tangible as distinguished from intangible property rights.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation, security, or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ection[ ] 1341 ... reach[es] any scheme to deprive another of money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises.”
19 later decisions 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.