United States v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 1382 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2005
14 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1708 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 510
Relies on Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney · United States v. Wilson · Landreth Timber Co. v. Landreth · Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company v. Pueblo of Santa Ana
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither to a new trial nor to multiple punishment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is currently possible for a thief to steal a Treasury check endorsed by a payee, endorse his own name and obtain the proceeds, and not violate section 495. In addition, it is possible for a thief to steal one or more government checks or bonds from the rightful owner and sell them to a middle man and not violate section 495 ____ Section 511 [renumbered section 510(b)] would ____ penalize whoever buys, sells, exchanges, receives, delivers, retains, or conceals a stolen United States security or one that bears a forged endorsement or signature knowing that the security is stolen or bears such an endorsement.”
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.