United States v. Pomponio’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 247 · 1975
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2009
8 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 26 U.S.C. § 7206 · 26 U.S.C. § 7207
Relies on Spies v. United States · United States v. Murdock · United States v. Bishop · United States v. Lyle B. Snider, United States of America v. Lyle B. Snider, and Sue T. Snider · United States v. McCorkle
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(g)ood motive alone is never a defense where the act done or omitted is a crime,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person who "(1) . . . Willfully makes and subscribes any return, statement, or other document, which contains or is verified by a written declaration that it is made under the penalties of perjury, and which he does not believe to be true and correct as to every material matter . . . "shall be guilty of a felony . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statute at hand requires a finding of a bad purpose or evil motive.”
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.