United States v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 1059 · 1983
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably United States v. Henson (1988), United States v. Joseph (1986)
21 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Hamling v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Feola · Kansas v. Missouri
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here one does an act with knowledge that the use of the mails will follow in the ordinary course of business, or where such use can reasonably be foreseen, even though not actually intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“what the government must show ... is an agreement to defraud plus knowledge that the use of the mails was reasonably foreseeable.”
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.