619 F. Supp. 474 - Allington v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 20 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Superior Oil Co. v. Fulmer (1986), Petro-Tech, Inc. v. The Western Company Of North America (1987)
12 federal appellate · 20 district · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1343 · 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)
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · United States v. Turkette · Rideout v. United States · Nye & Nissen 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an entity separate and apart from the pattern of [racketeering] activity in which it engages.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“correctly recognized that under Turkette every private plaintiff asserting a violation of RICO section 1962(c) must 'plead an enterprise apart from the underlying pattern of racketeering activity.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chang v. Chen · Chang v. Chen“'pattern' of racketeering activity must include racketeering acts sufficiently unconnected in time or substance to warrant consideration as separate criminal episodes”
2 later decisions 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.