United States v. Boffa’s Empirical Analysis
688 F.2d 919 · 1982
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 18 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably McNally v. United States (1987), Kehr Packages, Inc. v. Fidelcor, Inc. (1991)
88 federal appellate · 18 district · 1 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
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Brown v. Ohio · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc.
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enforcement of a federal statute that independently proscribes that conduct”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by his words or actions . .. objectively manifested an agreement to participate, directly or indirectly, in the affairs of an enterprise through the commission of two or more predicate crimes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“remedial nature of the [NLRA] and the primacy of the National Labor Relations Board in resolving unfair labor practice disputes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Local 560 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America, Salvatore Provenzano, President, Joseph Sheridan, Vice-President, Josephine Provenzano Septembre, Sec-Treasurer, J.W. Dildine, Recording Secretary, Thomas Reynolds, Sr., Trustee, Stanley Jaronko, Trustee, Trucking Employees of North Jersey Welfare Fund, Inc., Salvatore Provenzano, Employee Trustee, Thomas Reynolds, Sr., Employee Trustee, Local 560 Officers and Employees Severance Pay Plan, Salvatore Provenzano, Trustee and Administrator, Josephine P. Septembre, Trustee and Administrator, Anthony Provenzano, Individually, Nunzio Provenzano, Individually, Stephen Andretta, Individually, Thomas Andretta, Individually, Gabriel Briguglio, Individually. United States of America v. Local 560 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America, Salvatore Provenzano, President, Joseph Sheridan, Vice-President, Josephine Provenzano Septembre, Sec-Treasurer, J.W. Dildine, Recording Secretary, Thomas Reynolds, Sr., Trustee, Stanley Jaronko, Trustee, Trucking Employees of North Jersey Welfare Fund, Inc., Salvatore Provenzano, Employee Trustee, Thomas Reynolds, Sr., Employee Trustee, Local 560 Officers and Employees Severance Pay Plan, Salvatore Provenzano, Trustee and Administrator, Josephine P. Septembre, Trustee and Administrator, Anthony Provenzano, Individually, Nunzio Provenzano, Individually, Stephen Andretta, Individually, Thomas Andretta, Individually, Gabriel Briguglio, Individually. Appeal of Local Union No. 560, Appeal of Salvatore Provenzano, Joseph Sheridan, Jay Dildine, Josephine Provenzano, Thomas Reynolds, Michael Sciarra and Stanley Jaronko · United States v. Local of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffeurs Warehousemen and Helpers of America Jw P
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.