North Bridge Associates, Inc. v. Boldt’s Empirical Analysis
274 F.3d 38 · 2001
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States ex rel. Karvelas v. Melrose-Wakefield Hospital (2004), Picciotto v. Continental Casualty Co. (2008)
11 federal appellate · 15 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
Relies on Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company · New England Data Services, Inc. v. Becher · United States v. McGill · Feinstein v. Resolution Trust Corp.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As in any other fraud case, the pleader [alleging predicate acts of fraud] is required “to go beyond a showing of fraud and state the time, place and content of the alleged mail and wire communications perpetrating that fraud.”... It is not enough for a plaintiff to file a RICO claim, chant the statutory mantra, and leave the identification of predicate acts to the time of trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the specific allegations of the plaintiff make it likely that the defendant used interstate mail or telecommunications facilities, and the specific information as to use is likely in the exclusive control of the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Becher discovery (with concomitant leave to amend) 'is neither automatic, nor of right, for every plaintiff.'”
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.