United States v. Bright’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 504 · 1979
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably Whitten v. United States (1979), United States v. Wuagneux (1982)
28 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2
Relies on Allen v. United States · Bates v. State Bar · Parr v. United States · Union Carbide Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. Warner
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [the defendants] had not decided to defraud the estate of their late cousin, they would not have had to comply with the state law requiring them to file the creditors' notice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here one does an act with knowledge that the use of the mails will follow in the ordinary course of business, or where such use can reasonably be foreseen, even though not actually intended, then he `causes' the mails to be used.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is not necessary that a defendant actually do any of the mailing so long as there is sufficient evidence to tie him to the fraudulent scheme which involves the use of the mails.”
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.