Withrow v. Larkin

How courts have described this case

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

• repeated actions of participants in scheme sufficient to show intent and to preclude finding of mistake or naivete
• different teams of people staged automobile collisions in various parts of Louisiana for the common purpose of defrauding insurers
• revelation of criminal records of co-defendants is not so prejudical as to warrant a severance
• conspiracy among numerous individuals, including doctors and lawyers, to stage automobile accidents and to file and collect for fraudulent insurance claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

120 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. John L. Morrow
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-08-16· cited 233×
• United States v. Charles Vinson, United States of America v. Arlie B. Thompson
  Sixth Circuit· 1979-09-27· cited 229×
• United States v. Bright
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-07-11· cited 221×
• United States v. Jo Ann Harrelson, Charles Voyed Harrelson and Elizabeth Nichols Chagra
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-02-15· cited 219×
• United States v. Ronald Berkowitz, Paul D'alessandro, Kevin Van Coughnett, Bisan Vafaie, and Wendall Howell
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-12-07· cited 200×
• United States v. Lewis Davis Michel, Robert Joseph Belmares, John Handy Jones, Daniel Stewart Henshaw and Ted Ray Hines
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-03-02· cited 184×
• United States v. Jose Avalos and Rudolfo Castrillon
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-11-04· cited 174×
• United States v. Thomas E. Flaherty, United States of America v. James R. Kearns, Jr., United States of America v. Stuart H. Wahl
  First Circuit· 1981-11-12· cited 170×
• United States v. Wendell Cole, Howard Masters, B.K. Taylor, Larry Masters, Defendants
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-03-19· cited 168×
• United States v. Charles A. Johnson, Dennis Lee Lipper, Lawrence Jess Storey, Jr., Jesse Roscoe Storey, Roger Mark Schlager and Brent Harelson
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-07-05· cited 150×
• United States v. Houshang Sheikh
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-09-03· cited 136×
• United States v. Knowles
  Eleventh Circuit· 1995-10-17· cited 136×
• United States v. Patrick C. Richerson
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-12-02· cited 135×
• Buckley v. Valeo
  D.C. Circuit· 1975-08-15· cited 134×
• United States v. Natividad Ocanas, Santiago Casiano, Jr., Ramiro Gonzalez Alvarado, Rogelio Jose De La Garza and Amadeo Uresti Garza
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-10-14· cited 127×
• United States v. Harold Thomas Wilson, United States of America v. Bobby Eugene Hendrix
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-09-30· cited 125×
• United States v. Joseph Kelly
  Third Circuit· 1990-01-17· cited 119×
• United States v. John Russell Webster, Jr., Delbert Paul Hoskins, Robert Bode and John Jay Caperton
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-06-11· cited 118×
• United States v. Morris
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-02-16· cited 117×
• United States v. Davida Ross Staller and David Owen Saunders
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-05-14· cited 107×