United States v. McLeod’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 282 · 1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 25 Mass. App. Ct. 302 - Makino, U.S.A., Inc. v. Metlife Capital Credit Corp. (1988), United States v. Northrop Corp. (1995)
12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2415 (Indian Claims Limitation Act of 1982) · 31 U.S.C. § 3729 (False Claims Act)
Relies on United States Marcus v. Hess · United States v. Summerlin · United States v. Bornstein · United States v. Neifert-White Co. · United States of America, Cross-Appellee v. Cooperative Grain and Supply Co., Cross-Appellants
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he double damages provision of the [FCA] is meant not only to compensate the government fully but also to deter fraudulent claims from being filed against it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'to make sure that the government would be made completely whole.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his method of computation, which maximizes the deterrent impact of the double-damages provision ... best comports in our view with the language and purpose of the Act.”
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.