United States v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
501 F.2d 943 · 1974
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1997 · most notably United States v. Rodgers (1984), United States v. Lichenstein (1980)
97 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990)
Relies on Berger v. United States · Stirone v. United States · Russell v. United States · Hartman v. United States · United States v. Gilliland
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“decisions originates at least in part from latent distaste for an application of the statute that is uncomfortably close to the Fifth Amendment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an exculpatory denial by a person under investigation may have less potential for misleading”
3 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.