United States v. Kent’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 542 · 1979
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Wuagneux (1982), United States v. Gordon (1986)
75 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Pereira v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Maze · Kann v. United States · Parr 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the success of the scheme actually depended on the mailings in a 'but for' sense.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“incident to an essential part of the scheme.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ALL 19 COUNTS OF THE INDICTMENT-COUNTS 1-7 • AND 9-20 CHARGE ONE OR BOTH OF THE DEFENDANTS WITH VIOLATING SECTION 1341 OF TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE, WHICH READS IN ITS RELEVANT PART AS FOLLOWS: WHOEVER, HAVING DEVISED OR INTENDING TO DEVISE ANY SCHEME OR ARTIFICE TO DEFRAUD, OR FOR OBTAINING MONEY ... BY MEANS OF FALSE OR FRAUDULENT PRETENSES, REPRESENTATIONS, OR PROMISES, ... PLACES IN ANY ... AUTHORIZED DEPOSITORY FOR MAIL MATTER, ANY MATTER OR THING WHATEVER TO BE SENT OR DELIVERED BY THE POSTAL SERVICE, ... OR KNOWINGLY CAUSES TO BE DELIVERED BY MAIL ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION THEREON, ... ANY SUCH MATTER OR THING ... (FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXECUTING SUCH SCHEME OR ARTIFICE OR ATTEMPTING SO TO DO) ... SHALL BE GUILTY OF AN OFFENSE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. This is a copy of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1341 as the court instructed you in its charge February 16, 1984.”
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.