United States v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 101 · 1973
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably United States v. Patterson (1981), 505 F. Supp. 1190 - Zenith Radio Corp. v. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (1980)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 14 U.S.C. § 211 · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 1732 · 3 U.S.C. § 301 · 44 U.S.C. § 1907
Relies on United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Associated Press v. Taft-Ingalls Corp. · Luckenbach Steamship Co. v. Zim Israel Navigation Co. · McDaniel v. United States · United States v. Musquiz
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Liberal as we are to the fullest use of 28 U.S.C.A. § 1732 , there are two prerequisites both of which are to be demonstrated to permit admission of business records. First, the Federal Business Records Act states that the offeror must establish that the records were kept in the regular course of business_ Secondly, testimony must be given by a custodian adequately authenticating the record’s accuracy and explaining the efforts employed to ensure this accuracy.... “It is the circumstances under which the records are recorded, kept, maintained and used that gives the reliability essential to the law’s conclusion that without any independent recollections by those who made the succession of entries they are reliable, precisely because the business relies on them for important business judgments .... “While the trial court does have wide discretion in determining the admissibility of documents as business records, ... there must be minimal authentication proof to give them reliability.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.