Jacobson v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
882 F.2d 717 · 1989
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Lightning Lube, Inc. v. Witco Corp. (1993), Riverwoods Chappaqua Corp. v. Marine Midland Bank, N.A. (1994)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company · Kahn v. Grant · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director · McWherter v. Brooks · Schreiber Distributing Co. v. Serv-Well Furniture 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“RICO 'person' and one of a number of members of the RICO 'enterprise,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as certain criminal acts under state and federal law including, among other things, mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1341 , and wire fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1343 . The statute requires a plaintiff to plead at least two predicate acts of racketeering activity. See 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (5). The plaintiff alleges the following predicate acts: Violation of New York Penal Law (”
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.