United States v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis
496 F.2d 20 · 1974
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2009
19 federal appellate · 1 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. § 3731 · 18 U.S.C. § 702 · 18 U.S.C. § 912
Relies on Eisenstadt v. Baker · John Dalmer Benton v. Maryland · Honea v. United States · United States v. Guthrie · United States v. Mitman
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever, with intent to defraud either the United States or any person, shall falsely assume or pretend to be an officer or employee acting under the authority of the United States, or any department, or any officer of the'Government thereof, or under the authority of any corporation owned dr controlled by the United States, and shall take upon himself to act as such * * 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever falsely assumes or pretends to be an officer or employee acting under the authority of the United States or any department, agency or officer thereof, and acts as such ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
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.