United States v. Paschall’s Empirical Analysis
772 F.2d 68 · 1985
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016
13 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act)
Relies on California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · ITT Continental Baking Co. v. William Inglis & Sons Baking Co. · Federal Election Commission v. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · United States v. Manton · United States v. Jannotti
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A public official's retention of things of value paid to him by private persons for performance of his official duty is a misuse of his office.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he meaning of ‘induced ... under color of official right’ is the question in this case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“necessary for the government to prove as a part of its case that the public official misused his office in the sense that he granted some benefit or advantage to his benefactor to which the benefactor was not entitled.”
1 later decision 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.