United States v. Billups’s Empirical Analysis
692 F.2d 320 · 1982
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably United States v. Williams (1991), United States v. Love (1985)
68 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Smith v. Phillips · Santoni v. United States · Walder 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“judge's curative instructions served to assist the jury in giving proper weight to his comments”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fear need not be the consequence of a direct or implicit threat by the defendant, and the government’s burden of proof is satisfied if it shows that the victim feared an economic harm, and that the circumstances surrounding the alleged extortionate conduct rendered that fear reason-able____ [S]o long as the defendant intends to exploit the reasonable fear of the victim, his actions will constitute extortion under the Hobbs Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be determined from the nature of the crime alleged and the location of the act or acts constituting it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.