United States v. Vixie’s Empirical Analysis
532 F.2d 1277 · 1976
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Laurins (1988), United States v. Schwartz (1991)
21 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1505
Relies on Hamling v. United States · United States v. Greene · United States v. Ryan · Catrino v. United States · United States v. Fruchtman
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n administrative investigation is a 'proceeding' within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1505”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“submitting a false document is not a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1505, where ... the conduct violates 18 U.S.C. § 1001.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The obstruction need not be successful; the jury may convict one who 'endeavors' to obstruct such a proceeding.”
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.