United States v. Sindona’s Empirical Analysis
636 F.2d 792 · 1980
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Rigas (2007), United States v. Ianniello (1986)
72 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 12 U.S.C. § 1823 · 12 U.S.C. § 1841 (§ 2 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 18 U.S.C. § 1005 · 18 U.S.C. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 1621
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Ohio v. Roberts · Berger v. United States · Hamling 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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the `core of criminality' is not the substance of the false statements but rather that knowing falsehoods were submitted....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“make a partial repayment. We approved the district court's exclusion of the repayment evidence, noting that 38 [t]he only probative value associated with the repayment ... would either be to show that [the bank] suffered no loss or that in 1972 Sindona did not intend to misapply [the bank's] funds. In United States v. Fortunato, 402 F.2d 79 ... we held that ... loss to the victim need not be shown in order to prove a violation. Thus, an absence of loss to [the bank] is irrelevant. The repayment by Interbanca as evidence of Sindona's 1972 intent is similarly irrelevant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises.”
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.