United States v. Braasch’s Empirical Analysis
505 F.2d 139 · 1974
Citation profile
171 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty (1980), Evans v. United States (1992)
171 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Desist v. United States · Bronston v. United States · Rogers v. Loether · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So long as the motivation for the payment focuses on the recipient's office, the conduct falls within the ambit of 18 U.S.C. § 1951.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“(2) The term “extortion” means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““The government has every right to interrogate witnesses on subjects relevant to a continuing investigation even when the evidence received may also relate to a pending indictment.” Id. at 147 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.