United States v. Jermendy’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.2d 640 · 1976
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2021
13 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on United States v. Feola · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · United States v. Boyd · United States v. Howey · United States v. Denmon
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was not an essential part of the common law larceny-type offense that the thief knew who owned the property he took; it was enough that he knew it did not belong to him. The legislative history provides no support for an assump tion that Congress intended in section 641 to add to the common law offenses a new requirement that a thief know who owned the property he was stealing. The reason for including the requirement that the property, in fact, belongs to the Government was to state the foundation for federal jurisdiction. A defendant’s knowledge of the jurisdictional fact is irrelevant, as we have held in many cases interpreting analogous statutory provisions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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