United States v. Clemente’s Empirical Analysis
22 F.3d 477 · 1994
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably United States v. Rigas (2007), United States v. Wong (1994)
36 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Stirone v. United States · Carolco Television Inc. v. National Broadcasting Co. · Batson v. Kentucky · DiCarlantonio v. United States · GLK, Inc. v. United States
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“modify essential elements of the offense charged to the point that there is a substantial likelihood that the defendant may have been convicted of an offense other than the one charged by the grand jury.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to establish a Hobbs Act conspiracy, the government does not have to prove any overt act. . . . The government needs to prove only that an agreement to commit extortion existed, not that extortion was actually committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“essential element” of the offense has been modified, we have”
2 later decisions 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.