United States v. Agnes’s Empirical Analysis
753 F.2d 293 · 1985
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Berckeley Investment Group, Ltd. v. Colkitt (2006), Brokerage Concepts, Inc., v. U.S. Healthcare, Inc. (1998)
44 federal appellate · 3 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · United States v. Frady · Hamling v. United States · Smith v. Wade · Eisenstadt v. Baker
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term ‘wrongful,’ which on the face of the statute modifies the use of each of the enumerated means of obtaining property — actual or threatened force, violence, or fear — would be superfluous if it only served to describe the means used. For it would be redundant to speak of ‘wrongful violence’ or ‘wrongful force’ since, as the government acknowledges, any violence or force to obtain property is ‘wrongful.’ Rather, ‘wrongful’ has meaning in the Act only if it limits the statute’s coverage to those instances where the obtaining of the property would itself be ‘wrongful’ because the alleged extortionist has no lawful claim to that property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"We hold that the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to exempt [the witness] from the sequestration order. The defendant failed to demonstrate that [the witness'] presence at trial was essential to the presentation of the defense, as is necessary for an exemption under Rule 615(3). * * *"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"At the request of a party the court shall order witnesses excluded so that they cannot hear the testimony of other witnesses, and it may [make] the order of its own motion. This rule does not authorize exclusion of (1) a party who is a natural person, or (2) an officer or employee of a party which is not a natural person designated as its representative by its attorney, or (3) a person whose presence is shown by a party to be essential to the presentation of his cause."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stone v. State
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.