Corbett v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
89 F.2d 124 · 1937
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1973 · most notably Affronti v. United States (1944), United States v. Gross (1969)
27 federal appellate ·
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 Berger v. United States · Cochran v. United States · United States v. Solomon Kenofskey · Stokes v. United States · Stewart 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he use of the mails in the execution of a scheme to defraud may be established by circumstantial evidence.” Corbett v. United States, 89 F.2d 124 , 127 (8th Cir. 1937).”
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.