United States v. Kingston’s Empirical Analysis
971 F.2d 481 · 1992
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Hubbard v. United States (1995), United States v. Kennedy (2000)
42 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 California v. ARC America Corp. · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · United States v. Morrison · United States v. Blue · Mobil Alaska Pipeline Co. 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether or not the law required that the purchaser of a HUD-financed home supply the earnest money and closing costs is irrelevant for purposes of § 1001. What is relevant is whether [defendant] was aware of the HUD policy which required the purchaser to supply the earnest money and closing costs out of his or her own funds and willfully and knowingly attempted to circumvent that policy by causing Ms. Million to portray the funds as her own on the HUD forms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“1) the defendant knowingly concealed a fact by any trick, scheme, or device; 2) the defendant acted willfully; 3) the fact concealed was material; 4) the subject matter involved was within the jurisdiction of a department or agency of the United States; and 5) the defendant had a legal duty to disclose the fact concealed”), with United States v. Irwin, 654 F.2d 671, 675-76 (10th Cir.1981) (holding that § 1001(a)(2) requires the Government to show:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The government established at trial that the notes were contemporaneous with the [telephone] conversation, were part of the regular course of the loan counselors’ business, and otherwise qualified as a business record under Rule 803(6). Therefore, the district court did not abuse its discretion in ruling that the notes qualify as an exception to the hearsay rule.”
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.