United States v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis
448 F.2d 815 · 1971
Citation profile
175 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably McCormick v. United States (1991), United States v. Bermea (1994)
175 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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. § 1863 · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 28 U.S.C. § 1732 · 28 U.S.C. § 1861 · 28 U.S.C. § 1863 · 28 U.S.C. § 1867 · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Berger v. United States · Swain v. State of Alabama · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Stirone 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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One need receive no personal benefit to be guilty of extortion; the gravamen of the offense is loss to the victim.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he victim's fearful state of mind is a crucial element in proving extortion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(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. (b) As used in this section— (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.”
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.