Vild v. Visconsi’s Empirical Analysis
956 F.2d 560 · 1992
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Musson Theatrical, Inc. v. Federal Express Corp. (1996), LRL Properties v. Portage Metro Housing Authority (1995)
39 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Carnegie v. United States · Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Continuity is “both a closed-and open-ended concept, referring either to a closed period of repeated conduct, or to past conduct that by its nature projects into the future with a threat of repetition.” (citation omitted). The plaintiff may prove continuity by showing a series of past related predicates occurring over an extended period of time. A few months period usually is not sufficient. A second means of establishing continuity is to show that the predicates, by their nature, “involve a distinct threat of long-term racketeering activity.” (citation omitted) ... A third way to prove continuity in this case is to allege “predicates [that] are a regular way of conducting defendant’s ongoing legitimate business ... or of conducting or participating in an ongoing and legitimate ‘RICO enterprise.’ ” (citation omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“at least two acts of racketeering activity, one of which occurred after [October 15, 1970] and the last of which occurred within ten years ... after the commission of a prior act of racketeering activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“arrangement or order of things or activity,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.