United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
934 F.2d 270 · 1991
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Vega-Castillo (2008), United States v. Hasson (2003)
27 federal appellate · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Pereira v. United States · Fahy v. Connecticut · Schmuck 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an intentional participation in a scheme to defraud a person of money or property, and (2) the use of the mails in furtherance of the scheme.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a defendant has been able to take possession of the object of the fraud and if the fraud is then at an end, further mailings 'involve[ ] little more than post-fraud accounting among the potential victims of the various schemes, and the long-term success of the fraud [does] not turn on which of the potential victims [bears] the ultimate loss.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here one does an act with knowledge that the use of the mails will follow in the ordinary course of business, or where such use can reasonably be foreseen, even though not actually intended.”
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.