United States v. Ruggiero’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.2d 1289 · 1991
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Dhinsa (2001), United States v. Morrison (1998)
64 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Allen v. United States · Alderman v. United States · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“coerce undecided jurors into reaching a verdict by abandoning without reason conscientiously held doubts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the court finds it necessary to excuse a juror for just cause after the jury has retired to consider its verdict, in the discretion of the court a valid verdict may be returned by the remaining 11 jurors.”
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.