Stephens, Inc. v. Geldermann, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
962 F.2d 808 · 1992
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Handeen v. Lemaire (1997), Crest Construction II, Inc. v. Doe (2011)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Commissioner v. Engle · Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip · 74 Ill. 2d 172 - Kelsay v. Motorola, Inc. · Kliewer v. New Jersey · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e charged RICO ... because the pattern of activity that these individuals engaged in encompassed some crimes that could be charged [under] separate federal statutefs], other than RICO, and some that could not be charged in federal court except through a RICO mechanism. Since all of those [statutes] were ... part of the activity of this group, RICO was the only mechanism to put their entire criminal conduct before the court. the only common factor that linked these parties and others together and defined them as a distinct group was their “direct or indirect participation” in Nabors’ and Keltner’s criminal activities. If the predicate acts are eliminated, the alleged association-in-faet enterprise has no form or structure, but is merely sporadic criminal activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'(1) a common or shared purpose; (2) some continuity of structure and personnel; and (8) an ascertainable structure distinet from that inherent in a pattern of racketeering.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waldon v. State
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.