United States v. Bloch’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 1213 · 1982
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2010 · most notably United States v. Jimenez Recio (2003), United States v. Bibbero (1984)
30 federal appellate · 3 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. § 371 · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Pinkerton v. United States · Alabama v. Battles · Hutton v. United States · United States v. Kenny
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] single overall agreement need not be manifested by continuous activity. There may be a suspension of activities which does not divide a single conspiracy into more than one.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] 'willful' violation of 29 U.S.C. § 186 requires only that the defendant act with knowledge that the payments are from a person acting in the interest of an employer and are intended to influence the defendant's duties as a union employee; knowledge of the statutory prohibition itself is not necessary.” United States v. Bloch, 696 F.2d 1213, 1216 (9th Cir.1982). As such, Union Defendants contend that Plaintiffs cannot prove that Defendants acted wilfully because”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] conspiracy is presumed to continue until there is an affirmative evidence of abandonment, withdrawal, disavowal or defeat of the purposes of the conspiracy.”
2 later decisions 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.