United States v. Ellis E. Neder, Jr.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[A] false statement can be material even if the decision maker actually knew or should have known that the statement was false.”
• “[H]armless-error analysis requires us to focus on whether a jury rationally could have reached a different verdict if properly instructed . . . .”
• “[A] false statement can be mate- rial even if the decision maker did not actually rely on the statement.”
• “[T]he government must show that' the evidence [of the proper theory of guilt] is so overwhelming ... that no rational jury, properly instructed ..., could have acquitted [the defendants] on that count”
• “[T]he government must show that the evidence [of the proper theory of guilt] is so overwhelming . . . that no rational jury, properly instructed . . ., could have acquitted [the defendants] on that count.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).