United States v. Maher’s Empirical Analysis
582 F.2d 842 · 1978
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably United States v. Irwin (1981), United States v. Bolden (2003)
25 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. § 287
Relies on United States v. Bishop · Lewis v. Martin · United States v. Moylan · United States v. Miller · United States v. Lyle B. Snider, United States of America v. Lyle B. Snider, and Sue T. Snider
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever makes or presents to any person or officer in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, or to any department or agency thereof, any claim upon or against the United States, or any department or agency thereof, knowing such claim to be false, fictitious, or fraudulent, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““I have used the terms in the Indictment ‘wilfully’ and ‘knowingly.’ Here are the appropriate definitions for those terms. “An act is done knowingly or the failure to act is knowingly done if done voluntarily and intentionally and not because of mistake or accident or other innocent reason. The purpose of adding the word ‘knowingly’ is to insure that no one will be convicted for an act done, or for an omission or failure to act because of mistake, accident or other innocent reason. “I have also used the term ‘wilfully.’ An act is done ‘wilfully’ or an;omission or failure to act is done wilfully if done voluntarily and intentionally and with specific intent to do something the law forbids or to fail to do something which the law requires; that is to say, with bad purpose either to disobey or disregard the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Criminal intent may be proved either by a showing that the defendant acted for a specific purpose to violate the law or that he acted with an awareness that what he was doing was morally wrong, whether or not he had actual knowledge that he was doing something that the law forbids.”
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.