United States v. Talbott’s Empirical Analysis
590 F.2d 192 · 1978
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 1995 · most notably Bender v. Southland Corp. (1984), United States v. Diggs (1979)
25 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 Pereira v. United States · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Gerry v. United States · Prestidge v. United States · United States v. Staszcuk
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary that the scheme contemplate the use of the mails as an essential element.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“wilfully devising a scheme or artifice to defraud [the government] through knowing misrepresentation of the type and nature of the treatments involved and the carrying out of such scheme by use of the mails in delivering the false billings.”
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.