United States v. Benter’s Empirical Analysis
457 F.2d 1174 · 1972
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably United States v. Tramunti (1975), United States v. Modica (1981)
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Berger v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Michelson v. United States · Cardillo v. United States · Braunfeld v. Gibbons
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are reminded in summation cases that repeated rebukes of the prosecution by an appellate court without reversal may ultimately become “an attitude of helpless piety,” and our “deprecatory words . .. purely ceremonial.” . . . We trust that the rebukes in United States v. Isaza, [ 453 F.2d 1259 (2d Cir. 1972)] and here, however, will not go unheeded by the prosecutorial staff involved for another time the evidence of guilt may be less convincing and the likelihood of prejudicial error correspondingly higher.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.