United States v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
111 F.3d 365 · 1997
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably United States v. Abu Ali (2008), United States v. Johnson (2009)
44 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1031 · 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 2320 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Glasser v. United States · United States v. Burgos · United States v. Aguilar · United States v. Castner · United States v. Heater
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to find a district court's error harmless, we need only be able to say with fair assurance, after pondering all that happened without stripping the erroneous action from the whole, that the judgment was not substantially swayed by the error.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“regardless of its privity with the United States, any contractor or supplier involved in a prime contract with the United States who commits a fraud ... is guilty so long as the prime contract, a subcontract, a supply agreement, or any constituent part of such a contract is valued at $1 million or more.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because evidence of intent will almost always be circumstantial, ... a defendant may be found culpable where the reasonable and foreseeable consequences of [her] acts are the obstruction of justice.”
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.