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United States v. West’s Empirical Analysis

666 F.2d 16 · 1981

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
December 2012
most recently cited

15 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2012

15 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. California · Pesce v. United States · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Johnson v. Moses

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a]ppellant's assertion ... that he was authorized, or reasonably believed that he was authorized, to sign his wife's name on the documents he submitted ... constitute[d] an affirmative defense which tended to negate the government's charge that he 'knowingly' submitted false documents.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “appellant's state of mind, including his reasonable belief that he had authority, was relevant to the question of whether he 'knowingly' submitted false documents.”
    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.