United States v. Phillips

How courts have described this case

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

• vacating entire sentence on all counts of conviction because the sentence was calculated through a grouping that contained vacated counts
• reversing a conviction under § 666 but making no constitutional ruling
• finding no agency relationship between a Louisiana parish tax assessor and the parish itself because the assessor “was not an employee or officer of the parish and because he was not authorized to act on behalf of the parish with respect to its funds”
• “The proponent of the statement bears a heavy burden to come forward with indicia of both trustworthiness and probative force.” (quotation omitted)
• § 666 does not reach misconduct of local officials whose actions do not threaten the integrity of federal funds or programs
• “Efforts to conceal an ongoing conspiracy obviously can further the conspiracy by assuring that the conspirators will not be revealed and the conspiracy brought to an end.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

72 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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  Fifth Circuit· 2002-08-06· cited 339×
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  Fifth Circuit· 2011-12-07· cited 263×
• United States v. Ollison
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-01-06· cited 205×
• United States v. Holmes
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-04-06· cited 181×
• United States v. Albert Louis Lipscomb, Cross-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-07-12· cited 173×
• United States of America, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Kevin Manfre, Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Eighth Circuit· 2004-06-21· cited 168×
• United States v. Howard Grant
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-06-08· cited 144×
• United States v. Langston
  Eleventh Circuit· 2009-12-22· cited 125×
• United States v. Julius Omar Robinson, Also Known as Face, Also Known as Scar, Also Known as Scarface
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-04-14· cited 123×
• United States v. Robert Suarez
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-08-08· cited 115×
• United States v. John Vitillo, Vitillo Corporation and Vitillo Engineering, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 2007-06-25· cited 113×
• United States v. Juan Arturo Mendoza-Medina
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-09-10· cited 102×
• United States v. Sunia
  District of Columbia· 2009-08-11· cited 101×
• State v. Gutierrez
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2007-01-26· cited 99×
• United States v. Skilling
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-01-06· cited 98×
• United States v. Sotomayor-Vazquez
  First Circuit· 2001-04-30· cited 97×
• George v. SI Grp
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-06-03· cited 97×
• United States v. Elashyi
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-12-29· cited 91×
• United States v. Gonzalez
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-04-16· cited 90×
• United States v. Reyes
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-01-26· cited 82×

Cites

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

• Pinkerton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-10-14· cited 3,200×
• Bourjaily v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-23· cited 2,639×
• Jones v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1999-03-24· cited 2,200×
• New York v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-19· cited 1,301×
• United States v. Orange Jell Beechum
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-10-25· cited 1,202×
• Salinas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-12-02· cited 1,039×
• South Dakota v. Dole
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-23· cited 678×
• Jones v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2000-05-22· cited 504×
• Burge v. Parish of St. Tammany
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-08-25· cited 428×
• United States v. Michael G. Thevis, Alton Bart Hood, Global Industries, Inc., Anna Jeanette Evans
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-01-11· cited 425×
• Forman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-02-23· cited 239×
• United States v. Pace
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-12-17· cited 234×
• United States v. Broussard
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-04-06· cited 218×
• United States v. Asibor
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-03-27· cited 185×
• United States v. George Dean, James Earl Cofer, Kenneth Dewayne Smith, and Kenneth Earl Flowers
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-08-23· cited 181×
• Joseph Bennard Nichols v. Wayne Scott, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, Cross-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-11-20· cited 177×
• United States v. Matthew Wayne Tome
  Tenth Circuit· 1995-07-31· cited 122×
• United States v. James Anderson and Dean Hodge
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-04-26· cited 121×
• Fischer v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2000-05-15· cited 117×
• United States v. Dwayne A. Washington
  D.C. Circuit· 1997-02-21· cited 108×