United States v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 586 · 1993
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Perez (1997), United States v. Tomblin (1995)
48 federal appellate · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Kolender v. Lawson · Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company · Pereira 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Hobbs Act reaches anyone who actually exercises official powers, regardless of whether those powers were conferred by election, appointment, or some other method.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[W]here as here, the district court uses great diligence in instructing the jury to separate the evidence, severance is unnecessary because the prejudicial effects of the evidence of codefendants are”
2 later decisions 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.