United States v. Doherty’s Empirical Analysis
969 F.2d 425 · 1992
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably 134 S. Ct. 2384 - Loughrin v. United States (2014), United States v. LeDonne (1994)
49 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Park 'N Fly, Inc. v. Dollar Park & Fly, Inc. · Hughey v. United States · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Check kiting, at root, is a plan designed to separate the bank from its money by tricking it into inflating bank balances and honoring checks drawn against accounts with insufficient funds.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“repeated acts over a period of time, unless it is clear that each instance was purely opportune.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]rafting 40 overdraft checks during a single month, few if any of which appear to be purely opportune, arguably fits [the more than minimal planning] profile.”
3 later decisions 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.