United States v. Dockray’s Empirical Analysis
943 F.2d 152 · 1991
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably United States v. Chaney (1992), United States v. Neal (1994)
58 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Cheek v. United States · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. United States · Brame 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To act with an ‘intent to defraud’ means to act knowingly and with the intention or purpose to deceive or to cheat. An intent to defraud is accompanied by a desire to bring about some gain or benefit to oneself, or some other person, or by a desire or a purpose to cause some loss to some person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It is not error to inform a jury of the contents of a plea agreement, nor is it improper for the government to call attention to a witness' motivation for testifying.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“jury instructions are to be evaluated in the context of the charge as a whole, and a defendant has no absolute right to the use of particular language.”
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.