United States v. Goldblatt’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 619 · 1987
Citation profile
121 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Brandon (1994), United States v. Autuori (2000)
121 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 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 15 U.S.C. § 1693 · 15 U.S.C. § 1693G · 18 U.S.C. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 1344 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Cupp v. Naughten · Bollenbach v. United States · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Bell v. United States · Roemer 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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The term 'scheme to defraud,' however, is not capable of precise definition. Fraud instead is measured in a particular case by determining whether the scheme demonstrated a departure from fundamental honesty, moral uprightness, or fair play and candid dealings in the general life of the community.'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he terms 'scheme' and 'artifice' are defined to include, among other things, any fraudulent pretenses or misrepresentations intended to deceive others to obtain something of value, such as money, from the institution to be deceived.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Like these existing fraud statutes, the proposed bank fraud offense proscribes the conduct of executing or attempting to execute 'a scheme or artifice to defraud' or to take the property of another 'by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises.'”
6 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.