official proceeding
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 574 U.S. 528 - Yates v. United States · 2015Most cited · 158 citing opinions
any "proceeding before a judge or court of the United States," § 1512(c)(1)prohibits tampering with evidence in federal litigation between private parties.
How often courts cite the case defining “official proceeding”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “official proceeding” — 157 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.