United States v. Bohonus’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 1167 · 1980
Citation profile
161 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 240 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc (1985), McNally v. United States (1987)
161 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 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
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hamling v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Screws v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 240 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably calculated to deceive persons of ordinary prudence and comprehension.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reflection of moral uprightness, of fundamental honesty, fair play and right dealing in the general and business life of members of society.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An indictment must provide the defendant with a description of the charges against him sufficient to (1) enable him to prepare his defense; (2) ensure him that he is being prosecuted on the basis of facts presented to the grand jury; (3) enable him to plead double jeopardy against a later prosecution; and (4) inform the court of the facts alleged so that it can determine the sufficiency of the charge.”
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.