United States v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.3d 708 · 1993
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2021
12 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1344
Relies on Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Landry · United States v. Goldblatt · United States v. Schwartz · United States v. Barnhart
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he bank fraud statute condemns schemes designed to deceive in order to obtain something of value.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In reviewing the trial court's ruling on the motion for acquittal, this court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . the government did not have to show Britton made false representations”
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.