Compton v. Ide’s Empirical Analysis
732 F.2d 1429 · 1984
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 20 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Agency Holding Corporation v. Malley-Duff & Associates Inc Crown Life Insurance Company (1987), Franklin v. Murphy (1984)
80 federal appellate · 20 district · 5 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. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · 34 Cal. 3d 18 - Williams v. State of California · Singleton v. City of New York
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A federal claim accrues when the plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the basis of the action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not necessary that [it] have knowledge of all the details or all of the persons involved in order for [the] cause of action to accrue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The civil remedy provision's focus upon injury as opposed to existence of a conspiracy suggests that the normal federal rule on accrual [a claim accrues when the plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury] should apply to civil RICO actions alleging conspiracy.”
1 later decision 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.