Superior Oil Co. v. Fulmer’s Empirical Analysis
785 F.2d 252 · 1986
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 41 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2003 · most notably Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company (1989), California Architectural Building Products, Inc. v. Franciscan Ceramics, Inc. (1987)
82 federal appellate · 41 district · 3 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
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · United States v. Turkette · Iannelli v. United States · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico
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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires more than one 'racketeering activity' and the threat of continuing activity to be effective. It is this factor of continuity plus relationship which combines to produce a pattern.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[i]t places a real strain on the language to speak of a single fraudulent effort, implemented by several fraudulent acts, as a "pattern of racketeering activity.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“differs from the other provisions in Sec. 1961 in that it states that a pattern”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Edwards · Condict v. Revelle
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.