United States v. West’s Empirical Analysis
666 F.2d 16 · 1981
Citation profile
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 ·
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.
“[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“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.