United States v. Knippenberg’s Empirical Analysis
502 F.2d 1056 · 1974
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably 75 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Roberts (1979), State v. Hall (1990)
43 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2314
Relies on Mahan v. Howell · Giordano v. United States · United States v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. · Kansas v. Missouri · United States v. Joyce
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he record very reasonably bears the interpretation that Walsh told Mrs. Post the checks were from Knippenberg so as to reassure her and help induce her to deposit them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an individual cannot be held criminally liable for substantive offenses committed by members of the conspiracy before that individual has joined....”
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.