O'Malley Osa v. H O'Neill Osa’s Empirical Analysis
887 F.2d 1557 · 1989
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Hecht v. Commerce Clearing House, Inc. (1990), Pelletier v. Zweifel (1991)
21 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 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) · 18 U.S.C. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Cruz v. Beto · McNally v. United States · Kahn v. Grant · California Department of Transportation v. Naegele Outdoor Advertising Co. of California
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may well be true that the commission of the predicate acts constituted the "but for" cause of the firings. However, that tenuous a relation between the harm and the predicate acts is not sufficient to confer standing ... RICO does not provide a remedy for every injury that may be traced to a predicate act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he plaintiff only has standing if, and can duly recover to the extent that, he has been injured in his business or property by the conduct constituting the violation ... In other words, 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 § 1962(c) will flow from the commission of the predicate acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny person injured in his business or property by reason of a violation of section 1962 of this chapter may sue therefor in any appropriate United States district court and shall recover threefold the damages he sustains and the cost of the suit, including a reasonable attorney’s fee.”
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.