United States v. Sherer’s Empirical Analysis
653 F.2d 334 · 1981
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Lee (1984), United States v. Casperson (1985)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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)
Relies on Bullock v. United States · Earley v. DiCenso · Carpenter v. United States · United States v. Brown · United States v. Splain
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essence of a good-faith defense is that one who acts with honest intentions cannot be convicted of a crime requiring fraudulent intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adequately advise[d] the jury of the essential elements of the offenses charged and the burden of proof required of the government,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Good faith is a complete defense to a charge of mail fraud, and a defendant is entitled to such a charge if there is evidence to support the theory.”
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.