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United States v. Lanham’s Empirical Analysis

617 F.3d 873 · 2010

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
February 2025
most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1519 (§ 802 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2241 (Amber Hagerman Child Protection Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 371

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Olano · Farmer v. Brennan · Davis v. Alaska

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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “strike us as more than just maybe or probably wrong; it must, as one member of this court recently stated during oral argument, strike us as wrong with the force of a five-week-old, unrefrigerated dead fish.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Material omissions of fact can be interpreted as an attempt to 'cover up' or 'conceal' information.”
    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.