Carter v. Berger’s Empirical Analysis
777 F.2d 1173 · 1985
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Mid-State Fertilizer Co. v. Exchange National Bank of Chicago (1989), Roeder v. Alpha Industries, Inc. (1987)
50 federal appellate · 6 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 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 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)
Relies on Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois · Reiter v. Sonotone Corp. · Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp. · Trustees v. Greenough
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an indirectly injured party should look to the recovery of the directly injured party, not to the wrongdoer, for relief.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The investors in the firm suffer when the firm incurs a loss, yet only the firm may vindicate the rights at issue.... These principles should apply to RICO cases....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny person injured in his business or property”
3 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.