United States v. LaFaive’s Empirical Analysis
618 F.3d 613 · 2010
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1028A · 18 U.S.C. § 1344 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 982 (§ 1366 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986)
Relies on Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Flores-Figueroa v. United States · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Boston & Maine Corp. · Arnett v. Commissioner · United States v. Anderson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In general. — Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated in subsection (c), knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such felony, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 2 years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are also unpersuaded that because some states have drafted identity theft statutes that explicitly mention deceased individuals, we should not read deceased persons into the definition of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Carlin“Absent evidence of Congress's intent to the contrary, we assume that Congress intended the same words used close together in a statute to have the same meaning.”
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.