United States v. Zacher’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 912 · 1978
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably United States v. Porter (1979), United States v. Rooney (1994)
21 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
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · United States v. District Court · Jarecki v. G. D. Searle & Co. · Miller v. Rhay
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“involve a corrupt payment or receipt of payment in violation of the duty imposed by Congress on providers of services to use federal funds only for intended purposes and only in the approved manner.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he common thread that runs through common law and statutory formulations of the crime of bribery is the element of corruption, breach of trust, or violation of duty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts have consistently understood the word 'bribe' to encompass acts that are Malum in se because they entail either a breach of trust or duty or the corrupt selling of what our society deems not to be legitimately for sale . . . . It is this element of corruption that distinguishes a bribe from a legitimate payment for services.”
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.