493 So. 2d 504 - State v. Russo’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2018
8 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 Bowden v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before you can find the defendant guilty of conducting or participating in an enterprise, the State must prove the following two elements beyond a reasonable doubt: 1. The defendant was employed by or associated with an enterprise. 2. The defendant conducted or participated, directly or indirectly, in such enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity by engaging in at least two of the following incidents of Grand Theft as charged in Counts I, II, III, and IV of the Information. 3. Of those incidents in which the defendant was engaged, at least two of them had the same or similar intents, results, accomplices, victims, methods of commission, or were interrelated by distinguishing characteristics and were not isolated incidents. In order to constitute a pattern of racketeering activity, the incidents must amount to or otherwise constitute a threat of continuing racketeering activity. "Enterprise" means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, business trust, union chartered under the laws of Florida, or other legal entity, or any unchartered union, association, or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity, and includes lawful as well as unlawful enterprises and governmental as well as other entities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shimek v. State · Watts v. State“interpretation is in line with the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the proper target of RICO prosecution will be the career criminal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watts v. State
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.