486 F. Supp. 464 - United States v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2013
7 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1829B · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 18 U.S.C. § 207 · 18 U.S.C. § 281 · 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Berger v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Morissette v. United States · Hamling 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under color of official right in violation of the Hobbs Act,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Congress did not express itself in the most precise and most unambiguous language imaginable does not make its legislation defective. While use of the term' “bribery” in place of or in addition to “extortion ... induced ... under color of official right” would have simplified the present controversy, this does not render the Hobbs Act uncogent or illogical.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“those persons who have been impeding interstate commerce and levying tribute from free-born Americans engaged in interstate commerce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.