Lacy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 951 · 1979
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2009
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 19 U.S.C. § 1619 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 22 U.S.C. § 401 (§ 1 of the Espionage Act of 1917)
Relies on Corallo v. United States · Zane, in Re Matter Of · Tyson v. United States · Cornman v. United States
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant says that the Secretary’s action in refusing to pay the award is final and conclusive, and that this court has no jurisdiction to review it. We do not altogether agree. Under certain circumstances and to a certain extent we think his action may be reviewed by the courts. Congress did not intend to leave to the caprice or whim of the Secretary an informer’s right to the award. It intended to confer upon the informer an absolute right to demand the payment of the award when he had met the conditions precedent thereto laid down by Congress; that is to say, when he had furnished information of a fraud on the revenue, or a violation of the customs law, and when that information was “original” information thereof, and when that information led to the recovery of duties or of a fine, penalty, or forfeiture. If the information furnished was not the first information which the Secretary of the Treasury had had concerning the fraud or violation, the informer was not entitled to the fee. If the information furnished did not lead to a recovery of duties, or of any fine, penalty, or forfeiture, the informer was not entitled to a fee. But when the information was the first information which the Secretary had had, and when that information led to the recovery of duties, or of a fine, penalty, or forfeiture, then the informer was entitled as of right to the payment of the award, and if the Secretary of the Treasury arbitrarily or capriciously refused to pay it, the informer had”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]y use of the term 'original,' Congress meant to preclude successive rewards from being doled out after an investigation had been initiated and thereby discourage informers from giving out information on a piecemeal basis.” Id. at 530 , 607 F.2d 951 (citation omitted). . When Comman was decided the pertinent part of the statute read,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.