United States v. Condolon’s Empirical Analysis
600 F.2d 7 · 1979
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably McNally v. United States (1987), United States v. Frost (1997)
29 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1343
Relies on United States v. Regent Office Supply Co. · United States v. States · United States v. Louderman · United States v. Brewer
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the gravamen of the offense [wire fraud] is simply the misuse of interstate communication facilities to execute 'any scheme or artifice to defraud.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fraudulent scheme need not be designed to obtain money or property”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“legitimate and well-paid modeling and acting jobs,”
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.