United States v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2020
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. § 1959 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Turner v. United States · Griffin v. United States · United States v. Concepcion · United States v. Locascio · United States v. Thai
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o evidence was offered as to any discussions - preceding, contemporaneously, or after the payment - as to what the money was for.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his does not rise to the level of activity necessary to support a finding of membership or a desire to become a member.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]t most, the jury found that Ferguson participated in two failed attempts to find and kill Ayala”
1 later decision 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.