Morast v. Lance’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 926 · 1987
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Hecht v. Commerce Clearing House, Inc. (1990), Pelletier v. Zweifel (1991)
49 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 12 U.S.C. § 24 · 12 U.S.C. § 93 · 18 U.S.C. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1348 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1986
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Cort v. Ash · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co.
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the compensable injury necessarily is the harm caused by predicate acts sufficiently related to constitute a pattern ... Any recoverable damages occurring by reason of a violation of Sec. 1962(c) will flow from the commission of the predicate acts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the only way defendants could continue their illegal scheme was to rid the bank of those people who would not 'go along' with the plan.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inapposite because the plaintiffs in Callan, unlike Morast, were fired because they refused to participate in the illegal company policy.”
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.