United States v. Curry’s Empirical Analysis
681 F.2d 406 · 1982
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably McNally v. United States (1987), United States v. Erwin (1986)
56 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Glasser v. United States · Pereira v. United States · United States v. Bass · Dennis v. United States · United States v. Maze
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he language of the mail fraud statute is sufficiently flexible to encompass any conduct 'which fails to match the reflection of moral uprightness, of fundamental honesty, fair play and right dealing in the general and business life of members of society.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mailings of documents which are required by law to be mailed, and which are not themselves false and fraudulent, cannot be regarded as mailed for the purpose of executing a fraudulent scheme.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'regardless of how weak, inconsistent, or dubious the evidence of [the defense] may have been.'”
2 later decisions 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.