Menasco Inc’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 35 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Vicom, Inc. v. Harbridge Merchant Services, Inc. (1994), GICC Capital Corp. v. Technology Finance Group, Inc. (1995)
9 federal appellate · 35 district · 6 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 Foman v. Davis · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company · Schreiber Distributing Co. v. Serv-Well Furniture Co. · Roeder v. Alpha Industries, Inc.
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actions were narrowly directed towards a single fraudulent goal [and] involved a limited purpose.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[It] ensure[s] that RICO’s extraordinary remedy does not threaten the ordinary run of commercial transactions; that treble damage suits are not brought against isolated offenders for their harassment and settlement value; and that the multiple state and federal laws bearing on transactions ... are not eclipsed or preempted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the pattern requirement has any force whatsoever, it is to prevent ... ordinary commercial fraud from being transformed into a federal RICO claim.... If we were to recognize a RICO claim based on the narrow fraud alleged here, the pattern requirement would be rendered meaningless.”
6 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.