Statute treatment: 18 U.S.C. § 203

Ranked leading cases interpreting this statute, drawn from 300 citation events across 126 distinct cases.

300citations total

126distinct interpreting cases

37distinct courts

32citations in last 5y

1936–2026year range

Top 20 leading cases

#1 Crandon v. United States (1990) scotus 695 own cites 6× in case

#2 United States v. E.W. Freeman (1987) ca10 25 own cites 11× in case

#3 United States v. Eugene Robert Wallach (1992) ca2 108 own cites 5× in case

#4 May v. United States (1949) cadc 104 own cites 5× in case

#5 Ekberg v. United States (1948) ca1 111 own cites 4× in case

#6 United States v. Bertram L. Podell (1978) ca2 139 own cites 3× in case

#7 United States v. Alexander A. Alexandro, Jr. (1982) ca2 41 own cites 5× in case

#8 United States v. David P. Baird, United States of America v. David P. Baird, United States of America v. David P. Baird (1994) cadc 23 own cites 6× in case

#9 United States v. Cecil Dwayne Evans, Arnold Gene Tate, and Charles Edward Gent, Jr. (1978) ca5 240 own cites 2× in case

#10 Marasco & Nesselbush, LLP v. Collins (2021) ca1 10 own cites 9× in case

#11 United States v. Harrison A. Williams, Jr. And Alexander Feinberg (1983) ca2 113 own cites 2× in case

#12 United States v. Project on Government Oversight (2010) cadc 14 own cites 6× in case

#13 United States v. Myers (1982) ca2 139 own cites 5× in case

#14 United States v. Mario Biaggi and Meade Esposito (1988) ca2 100 own cites 2× in case

#15 United States v. William Del Toro and William Kaufman (1975) ca2 92 own cites 2× in case

#16 United States v. Alfred Carpentier (1982) ca2 68 own cites 2× in case

#17 United States v. John Dowdy (1973) ca4 67 own cites 2× in case

#18 Commonwealth v. Canon (1977) mass 61 own cites 2× in case

#19 Town of Nantucket v. Beinecke (1979) mass 54 own cites 2× in case

#20 United States v. Bertram L. Podell and Martin Miller (1975) ca2 16 own cites 4× in case

Ranking method: leading_score = ln(1 + own_citation_count) × √(mentions_in_case) × flag_factor, where flag_factor = 1.0 green · 0.6 unknown · 0.5 neutral · 0.4 yellow · 0.3 procedural · 0 red. Red-flagged cases excluded — their interpretation has been undermined and shouldn't lead the list. Top 20 returned per statute. Open any case for full G Cite, trajectory, and per-circuit treatment.