Marinello v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Billy Overstreet v. TRW Commercial Steering Division (2008), United States v. Thomas (2019)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 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. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1505 · 18 U.S.C. § 1512 · 18 U.S.C. § 1519 (§ 802 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) · 26 U.S.C. § 7203 · 26 U.S.C. § 7212
Relies on Smith v. Goguen · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Cheek v. United States · Schad v. Arizona · Freytag v. Commissioner
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“corruptly or by force or threats of force ... obstruct[ing] or imped[ing], or endeavor[ing] to obstruct or impede, the due administration of [the Internal Revenue Code].”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“pending at the time the defendant engaged in the obstructive conduct or, at the least, was then reasonably foreseeable by the defendant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is not enough for the Government to claim that the defendant knew the IRS may catch on to his unlawful scheme eventually[,]”
4 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.