United States v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
789 F.2d 795 · 1986
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably United States v. Aguilar (1989), United States v. Adler (1988)
38 federal appellate · 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. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Chambers v. Mississippi · Morissette v. United States · United States v. Russell · Hannahville Indian Community 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Failure to give an instruction on the defendant's theory of the case is reversible error if the theory is legally sound and evidence in the case makes it applicable.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To write the elements of conversion into the crime of unauthorized sale would be to assume that Congress meant nothing at all by making them separate crimes, an assumption we refuse to make.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts ... or without authority, sells, conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, money or thing of value of the United States”
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.