United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
585 F.2d 119 · 1978
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably United States v. Aleman (1979), United States v. Watson (1982)
65 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 7 U.S.C. § 1026
Relies on Alford v. United States · Grunewald v. United States · United States v. Hale · South Dakota v. Nebraska · Yeomans v. Kentucky
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the purpose of influencing in any way " defines the intent required to accompany a false statement and defines it broadly. It draws under its purview not only a defendant who intends to defraud an unwitting insured institution but also a defendant who intends to cooperate with the institution in a scheme requiring him, with the institution's knowledge, to make false statements for the furtherance of the scheme. The savings and loan's awareness of the fraud is not relevant, for its existence is not inconsistent with the intent to influence which a violator of Sec. 1014 must possess. Thus, this collection of facts labeled "complicity”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he focus of the offense is on the defendant's intent rather than on the victim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the purpose of influencing in any way”
2 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.