United States v. Contenti’s Empirical Analysis
735 F.2d 628 · 1984
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably United States v. Bortnovsky (1989), United States v. Draiman (1986)
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Pereira v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · United States v. Maze · Bowsher v. Merck & Co.
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.
“need not prove that the accused used the mails himself or actually intended that the mail be used.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is not in the public's interest to expect each new grand jury to start all over rather than accept the work product of the prior grand jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re: US v.“a normal concomitant of a transaction that is essential to the fraudulent scheme,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.