United States v. Claiborne’s Empirical Analysis
765 F.2d 784 · 1985
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably United States v. Baker (1993), United States v. Yarbrough (1988)
71 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 26 U.S.C. § 6103 · 26 U.S.C. § 7206
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“circumstantial evidence indicating that defendant knew or must have known that his returns were false.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] defendant may rebut the Government's proof of willfulness by establishing good faith reliance on a qualified accountant after full disclosure of tax related information.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“written statement made by said witness and signed or otherwise adopted or approved by him.”
4 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.