State v. Cagno’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
2 district · 15 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1959
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Grunewald v. United States · Carella v. California · Manalapan Realty v. Township Committee of the Township of Manalapan · Lindsay v. Beneficial Reinsurance Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“La Cosa Nostra families are organized on a hierarchical basis. At the bottom of this hierarchy are 'soldiers' who have taken an oath of loyalty to the family and are organized into functional units called 'crews,' which are headed by 'captains' or 'capos.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the crime or crimes which are its object are committed or the agreement that they be committed is abandoned by the defendant and by those with whom he conspired ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an absolute bar to the prosecution of the offense.”
1 later decision 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.