Bieganek v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 879 · 1986
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2012
8 federal appellate · 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. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Roemer v. United States · Waldschmidt v. Ranier · United Coin Meter Company Inc v. Seaboard Coastline Railroad · Leon A. Boughner v. Secretary Of Health, Education And Welfare · Cks Engineers Inc v. White Mountain Gypsum Company Ms a
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defense is meritorious if it is good at law so as to give the factfinder some determination to make.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliberately and willfully defied the court or disregarded the litigation”
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.