United States v. Bloom’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.3d 649 · 1998
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Skilling v. United States (2010), United States v. George (2005)
58 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
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wolff v. McDonnell · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Abney v. United States · Zafiro 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellate courts that dismiss these expressions [in dicta] and strike off on their own increase the disparity among tribunals (for other judges are likely to follow the Supreme Court's marching orders) and frustrate the evenhanded administration of justice by giving litigants an outcome other than the one the Supreme Court would be likely to reach were the case heard there.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]or the purposes of this chapter, the term `scheme or artifice to defraud' includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n employee deprives his employer of his honest services only if he misuses his position (or the information he obtained from it) for personal gain.”
2 later decisions 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.