United States v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
664 F.2d 971 · 1981
Citation profile
654 federal appellate · 18 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 885 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably United States v. Young (1984), United States v. Briscoe (1990)
654 federal appellate · 18 district · 72 state decisions — followed in 31 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 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. § 3 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
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 885 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“or less difficult, or to assist or aid.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'enterprise' includes any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A] motion for recusal may not ordinarily be predicated on [297 U.S.App.D.C. 40] the judge's rulings in the same or related case.”
8 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.