United States v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 1461 · 1988
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably United States v. Silvestri (2005), United States v. Hawkins (1990)
37 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Santoni v. United States · Sloan v. Hicks · Stafford v. Oklahoma
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, ... for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting to do so, places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the postal service ... shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than five years or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the appellants' contention might merit consideration had they not made representations to clients that went far beyond the information supplied by the partners at Alaska Oil.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the indictment charges multiple defendants with a single conspiracy and also charges some of the defendants with substantive counts arising out of the conspiracy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.