Adams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
279 federal appellate · 28 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 385 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Salinas v. United States (1997), Manzer v. Diamond Shamrock Chemicals (1994)
279 federal appellate · 28 district · 19 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
Relies on Russello v. United States · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Hildebrand v. Social Security Administration · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell
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 385 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress' intent is being frustrated in those circuits which adhere to the narrower view of RICO conspiracy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“defendants are being exposed to conviction for behavior Congress did not intend to reach under § 1962(d).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.