United States v. Granda’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.2d 922 · 1978
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Ratzlaf et Ux United States (1994), United States v. Thomas A. Warren, John L. Warren, Jr., Des. E. Schick and David Defina (1978)
83 federal appellate · 1 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 31 U.S.C. § 1101 (Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010)
Relies on United States v. Murdock · United States v. Bishop · Felton v. United States · United States v. Schilleci
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proof of the requisite knowledge ... is almost impossible unless affirmative steps are taken by the government to make the laws' requirements known.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. See, e.g., Granda, 565 F.2d at 925-26 (emphasis in original) ("We ... hold that the terms knowing and willful require proof of the defendant's knowledge of the reporting requirements and his specific intent to commit the crime”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`knowledge of the reporting requirements and [defendant's] specific intent to commit the crime'”
3 later decisions 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.