United States v. Benjamin

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How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• collecting cases holding that a quid pro quo can be implied
• joining “[e]very other circuit to have considered th[e] question” to hold that the “explicit quid pro quo requirement may be met by implication from the official’s and the payor’s words and actions and need not entail an express statement”
• “[T]he McCormick explicit quid pro quo requirement may be met by implication from the official’s and the payor’s words and actions and need not entail an express statement.”

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Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Alexander Sittenfeld aka P.G. Sittenfeld
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-02-11· cited 9×
• United States v. Matthew Borges
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-05-06

Cites

37 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Buckley v. Valeo
  Supreme Court· 1976-02-27· cited 4,982×
• Hamling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1974-10-15· cited 2,897×
• Xiao Ji Chen v. United States Department of Justice, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales
  Second Circuit· 2006-12-07· cited 2,764×
• Salinas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-12-02· cited 1,039×
• Skilling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-24· cited 987×
• Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2007-06-25· cited 666×
• McBoyle v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-03-09· cited 514×
• Evans v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-05-26· cited 423×
• McCormick v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-23· cited 268×
• United States v. Whitfield
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-12-11· cited 256×
• Ming Shi Xue v. Board of Immigration Appeals, U.S. Department of Justice
  Second Circuit· 2006-02-21· cited 232×
• United States v. Nick Stavroulakis
  Second Circuit· 1992-01-03· cited 228×
• United States v. Ruben Alfonso and Feli Gomez
  Second Circuit· 1998-05-14· cited 136×
• United States v. Donald J. Blandford
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-09-07· cited 105×
• United States v. Coperquin Gonzalez-Roque, Also Known as Manuel Ledesma
  Second Circuit· 2002-08-20· cited 105×
• United States v. Tomblin
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-02-24· cited 100×
• United States v. Don Eugene Siegelman
  Eleventh Circuit· 2011-05-10· cited 100×
• United States v. Ganim
  Second Circuit· 2007-12-04· cited 92×
• United States v. Alejandro Bustos De La Pava
  Second Circuit· 2001-10-15· cited 90×
• United States v. Clemmons J. Allen
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-12-23· cited 73×