United States v. Galloway’s Empirical Analysis
664 F.2d 161 · 1981
Citation profile
43 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2000 · most notably Schmuck v. United States (1989), United States v. Murphy (1985)
43 federal appellate ·
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 Pereira v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Maze · Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · Kann 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, ... for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It was immaterial to them, or to any consummation of the scheme, how the bank which paid or credited the check would collect from the drawee bank.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he transfer of title is a necessary step in the sales transaction, which [is] not actually completed until the title papers [are] processed.”
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.