United States v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.2d 44 · 1990
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably United States v. Prince (2000), United States v. London (1995)
20 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. § 1005 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 656
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · ITT Continental Baking Co. v. William Inglis & Sons Baking Co. · Gullett v. States · United States v. Thevis
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.
“'a defendant's knowledge of a fact may be inferred from willful blindness to the existence of the fact. A showing of negligence or mistake is not sufficient to support a finding of willfulness or knowledge.''”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]uch intent exists whenever the officer acts knowingly or with reckless disregardof the bank's interests and the result of his conduct injures or defrauds the bank.”
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.