United States v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
660 F.2d 1145 · 1981
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 153 Wis. 2d 121 - State v. Johnson (1990), United States v. Sun Myung Moon (1983)
43 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
Relies on Berger v. United States · Holland v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Sandstrom v. Montana · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Duberstein D Stanton
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although inflammatory argument may be grounds for reversal, the government should not be restricted to a sterile recitation of uncontroverted facts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from conduct such as keeping a double set of books, making false entries or alterations, or false invoices or documents, destruction of books or records, concealment of assets or covering up sources of income, handling of one's affairs to avoid making the records usual in transactions of the kind, and any conduct, the likely effect of which would be to mislead or to conceal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since pecuniary interests would necessarily disqualify a prospective juror from service, it is patently improper to make an appeal to that interest in closing argument.”
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.