United States v. Melton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

42 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) whether the co-defendant's testimony would be exculpatory; (2) whether the co-defendant would in fact testify; and (3) whether the testimony would bear on defendant's case.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. United States v. Studley · United States v. Balzano

2. “[W]hen the evidence establishes that the defendants committed during a time period several acts of racketeering in furtherance of the affairs of the enterprise, an inference of an agreement to do so may be drawn.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. O'Malley · United States v. Ashman

3. “[T]he object of a RICO conspiracy is to violate a substantive RICO"~provision— here, to conduct or participate in the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity — and not merely to commit each of the predicate acts necessary to demonstrate a pattern of racketeering activity____ [The court must be able to] reasonably infer that each crime was intended to further the enterprise’s affairs. To find a single conspiracy, we must stilTIook for agreement on an overall objective. What Congress did was to define that objective through the substantive provisions of the Act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 610 F. Supp. 1359 - United States v. Castellano