United States v. Rigas’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78M (§ 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 963 · 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Ashe v. Swenson · Carnegie v. United States · United States v. Dixon
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he evidence at [the New York] trial showed that throughout the period of the conspiracy, Defendants took over $200 million dollars from Adelphia’s Cash Management System for personal expenses ranging from $200 to purchase 100 pairs of bedroom slippers for Timothy Rigas, to over $3 million to produce a film by Ellen Rigas, to $200 million to pay off Rigas family margin loans. The missing money was obscured by the commingling of cash between Adelphia and the [Rigas Managed Entities] and the [Rigas Non-Cable Entities].... No promissory notes were ever signed in favor of Adelphia, and, in some instances, personal expenses were falsely recorded as Adelp-hia's expenses.... The cash transfers to the Rigas family were not reported as compensation or loans, as required by the SEC, or disclosed to investors as related party transactions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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