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971 F.2d 364 · 1992

Citation profile

89
cited by 89 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

34 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Jackson v. BellSouth Telecommunications (2004), 42 Cal. App. 4th 628 - Church of Scientology v. Wollersheim (1996)

34 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions

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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 Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company · Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios Inc · Kehr Packages, Inc. v. Fidelcor, Inc. · Feinstein v. Resolution Trust Corp.

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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We have found no case in which a court has held the requirement to be satisfied by a pattern of activity lasting less than a year. A pattern of activity lasting only a few months does not reflect the “long term criminal conduct” to which RICO was intended to apply.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 855 F. Supp. 1156 - Streck v. Peters · 57 F. Supp. 2d 1048 - Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Atlantic Pacific International, Inc.
  2. “any person through a pattern of racketeering activity or through collection of an unlawful debt to acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in or control of any enterprise which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Trudel v. Stoltz · 57 F. Supp. 2d 1048 - Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Atlantic Pacific International, Inc.
  3. “It shall be unlawful for any person to conspire to violate any of the provisions of subsection (a), (b), or (c) of this section.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Wagh v. Metris Direct, Inc. · Neibel v. Trans World Assurance Co.

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.