United States v. Snowden’s Empirical Analysis
770 F.2d 393 · 1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2024
2 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Pereira v. United States · United States v. James Griggs Raines · United States v. Seeger
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the purpose of executing the scheme.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question is whether the jury could have reasonably concluded that the mailings were for the purpose of executing the scheme.... The mails were “used prior to, and as one step toward, the receipt of the fruits of the fraud.” ... “Where 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 then he ‘causes’ the mails to be used.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here was evidence that this undisclosed [financial] relationship between the defendants operated to the financial detriment of the church and that had they known of the relationship, church officials would not have approved it.”
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.