United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
583 F.2d 659 · 1978
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Bennett v. Berg (1982), United States v. Riccobene (1983)
70 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 894
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Pereira v. United States · Bates v. State Bar · Castor 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress could have drafted the mail fraud statute so as to require only that the mails be in fact used as a result of the fraudulent scheme. But it did not do this; instead, it required that the use of the mails be “for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice____””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... if the mailing is a part of executing the fraud, or is closely related to the scheme, a mail fraud charge will lie even though the mailing was also related to a business purpose. 583 F.2d at 668 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The completion of the scheme must depend in some way upon the mailing charged.”
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.