United States v. Joyce’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 9 · 1974
Citation profile
115 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably United States v. Jewell (1976), United States v. McPartlin (1979)
115 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Marion · Pereira v. United States · Dunn v. United States · Rodriguez v. New York
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“scheme or artifice to defraud or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'testimony as to office practice is sufficient proof of mailing'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““§ 1341. Frauds and swindles. 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, . . . 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 Post Office Department, 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.””
2 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.