United States v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
685 F.2d 993 · 1982
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Liddell v. State of Missouri Liddell (1984), United States v. Robinson (1983)
23 federal appellate · 1 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. § 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. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on United States v. Turkette · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · Southeastern Community College v. Davis · Bates v. State Bar · Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems clear to us that those who played the leading roles in the enactment of the RICO statute thoroughly understood organized crime’s impact upon government entities. Senator McClellan, the chief sponsor of this bill and chairman of the committee which drafted it, said: “To exist and to increase its profits, Mr. President, organized crime has found it necessary to corrupt the institutions of our democratic processes, something no society can tolerate.” Further, he said, “For with the necessary expansion of governmental regulation of private and business activity, its power to corrupt has given organized crime greater control over matters affecting the everyday life of each citizen.” Representative St. Germain told the House that “the greatest danger from organized crime lies not in its provision of illegal goods and services, but in its penetration of the country’s legitimate institutions.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(c) 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ralston v. Capper“Criminal activity is private activity even when it is carried out in a public forum and even though the activity can only be undertaken by an official's use of a state given power[.]”
1 later decision 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.