United States v. Bucey’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 1297 · 1989
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably United States v. Townsend (1991), United States v. McNeese (1990)
80 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Burks v. United States · Kolender v. Lawson · United States v. Turkette · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · McNally v. United States
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'agreed to interfere with or obstruct one of [the government's] lawful functions by deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[A]cts which are in themselves legal lose their legal character when they become constituent elements of an unlawful scheme.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defraud the United States of money and property, that is, income taxes”
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.