United States v. Podell’s Empirical Analysis
572 F.2d 31 · 1978
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 14 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably United States v. Satterfield (1984), Gelb v. Royal Globe Insurance (1986)
40 federal appellate · 14 district · 6 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
Relies on McCarthy v. United States · United States v. Summerlin · Emich Motors Corporation v. General Motors Corporation · Bruce v. United States · Podell v. United States
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] criminal conviction, whether by jury verdict or guilty plea, constitutes estoppel ... in a subsequent civil proceeding as to those matters determined by the judgment in the criminal case.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he larger interests of public justice will not tolerate, under any circumstances, that a public official shall retain any profit or advantage which he may realize through the acquirement of an interest in conflict with his fidelity as an agent [of the United States.] If he takes any gift, gratuity or benefit in violation of his duty, or acquires any interest adverse to his principal without a full disclosure, it is a betrayal of his trust and a breach of confidence, and he must account to his principal for all he has received.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he United States is not subject to any statute of limitations ... unless Congress specifically provides otherwise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.