United States v. Southers’s Empirical Analysis
583 F.2d 1302 · 1978
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably United States v. Cauble (1983), United States v. Alexander (1988)
44 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
Relies on Michelson v. United States · Ohio v. Gallagher · Union Carbide Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · California v. Southland Royalty Co.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is proven by showing a knowing, voluntary act by the defendant, the natural tendency of which may have been to injure the bank even though such may not have been his motive.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“genuinely involved in the process of depositing funds and then making withdrawals against them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whoever knowingly makes any false statement or report, or willfully overvalues any land, property or security, for the purpose of influencing in any way the action of ... any bank the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, ... upon any application, advance, discount, purchase, purchase agreement, repurchase agreement, commitment, or loan, or any change or extension of any of the same, by renewal, deferment of action or otherwise, or the acceptance, release, or substitution of security therefor, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.””
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.