United States v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
431 F.2d 754 · 1970
Citation profile
46 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably United States v. Haldeman (1976), United States v. Evans (1978)
46 federal appellate ·
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. § 1621 · 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Dardi v. United States · United States v. First City National Bank of Houston · United States v. Manton · United States v. Geaney · United States v. Russell
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he evil sought to be prevented by the deterrent effect of [the bribery statute] is the aftermath suffered by the public when an official is corrupted and thereby perfidiously fails to perform his public service and duty.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even though the official offered a bribe is not corrupted, or the object of the bribe could not be attained, or it could make no difference if after the act were done it turned out that there had been actually no occasion to seek to influence any official conduct. It is also perfectly plain that the crime is consummated irrespective of whether an offer of an amount of money is accepted by the official.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is . . . perfectly plain that the crime [of § 201(b)(1) bribery] is consummated irrespective of whether an offer of an amount of money to influence an official's behavior is accepted by the official.”
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.