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quid pro quo

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 504 U.S. 255 - Evans v. United States · 1992Most cited · 796 citing opinions

that without pretense of any entitlement to the payment, a public official violates § 1951 if he intends the payor to believe that absent payment the official is likely to abuse his office and his trust to the detriment and injury of the prospective payor or to give the prospective payor less favorable treatment if the "quid pro quo" is not satisfied.

How often courts cite the case defining “quid pro quo”

19902000201020202030278

Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “quid pro quo” — 793 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.