United States v. Riccobene’s Empirical Analysis
709 F.2d 214 · 1983
Citation profile
132 federal appellate · 35 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 280 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Seville Industrial Machinery Corp. v. Southmost Machinery Corp. (1984), United States v. Pungitore (1990)
132 federal appellate · 35 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. § 1955 · 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Singleton v. Wulff · United States v. Turkette · Rummel v. Estelle
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 280 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has some function wholly unrelated to the racketeering activity.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not mean that every decision must be made by the same person, or that authority may not be delegated.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity.”
8 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.