People v. James’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2020
18 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 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on United States v. Turkette · Stirone v. United States · Estelle v. Williams · Holbrook v. Flynn · United States v. Pelullo
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To hold otherwise here would transmogrify the word 'include' into the word 'mean.' " Lyman , 188 Colo. at 222 , 533 P.2d at 1133 ; see also People v. James , 40 P.3d 36 , 47 (Colo. App. 2001) ("Thus, [a federal statute] defines 'enterprise' by stating what it 'includes,' a word that normally operates to extend rather than limit.... [The Colorado statute], on the other hand, defines 'enterprise' by stating what it 'means,' which ... is a word of limitation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Patton“"Enterprise" means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, trust, or other legal entity or any chartered union, association, or group of individuals, associated in fact although not a legal entity, and shall include illicit as well as licit enterprises and governmental as well as other entities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. McGlotten“'enterprise' includes any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. McGlotten
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.