Reves v. Ernst & Young’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
550 federal appellate · 314 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,175 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Scheidler (1994), Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter, Communities for Great Ore. (1995)
550 federal appellate · 314 district · 88 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedArthur Young & Co. v. Reves (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · United States v. Turkette · Russello v. United States
Cited together with Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company · United States v. Turkette · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Conley v. Gibson
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 2,175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some part in directing the enterprise's affairs.”
165 later decisions quote this exact passage“participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise's affairs,”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage“It shall be unlawful for any person employed by or associated with any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce, to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise’s affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity or collection of unlawful debt.”
34 later decisions 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.