United States v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
548 F.2d 42 · 1977
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2011
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Wingo v. Wedding · United States v. Turley · United States v. Regent Office Supply Co. · United States v. Pollack
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever transports in interstate or foreign commerce any goods, wares, merchandise, securities or money, of the value of $5,000 or more, knowing the same to have been stolen, converted or taken by fraud . . . Shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)here is no language in the (statute) which requires that the victim actually be deprived of any property at all-the scheme or artifice need only induce the travel not the loot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“close relationship between the mail fraud statute and the second paragraph of section 2314,” because Congress intended to”
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.