United States v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
202 federal appellate · 9 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 302 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Stirone v. United States (1960), United States v. Wilson (1975)
202 federal appellate · 9 district · 10 state decisions
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 15 U.S.C. § 17 (§ 6 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 18 U.S.C. § 13 (Assimilative Crimes Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 52 (§ 20 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on United Const Workers Affiliated with United Mine Workers of America v. Laburnum Const Corp · National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. · Allen-Bradley Local No 1111 United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board · Mitchell v. C. W. Vollmer & Co. · Cleveland 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 302 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion or attempts or conspires so to do, or commits or threatens physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of this section shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. p-q * * * (2) The term “extortion” means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right. (Emphasis supplied.)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“wages to be paid for imposed, unwanted, superfluous and fictitious services”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“extortion as defined in the [Hobbs Act] in no way depends upon having a direct benefit conferred on the person who obtains the property .”
3 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.