United States v. Bertman’s Empirical Analysis
686 F.2d 772 · 1982
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2018
10 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. § 1952
Relies on San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · United States v. Pheaster · United States v. Winter · United States v. Kahn · Cerone 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the unlawful activity charged in the indictment is the violation of state law, the commission of or the intent to commit such a violation is an element of the federal offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Myers v. Sessions“sufficient to entitle him to an instruction on the defense of coercion”
1 later decision 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.