Schiffels v. Kemper Financial Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 344 · 1992
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Beck v. Prupis (2000), Vicom, Inc. v. Harbridge Merchant Services, Inc. (1994)
36 federal appellate · 1 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 Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Holmes v. Securities Investor Protection Corporation · 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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The plaintiff must] plead that each defendant agreed to conduct the affairs of an enterprise, that each agreed to the com mission of at least two predicate acts, and that each defendant knew that those predicate acts were part of a pattern of racketeering activity____ [The plaintiff] must allege facts from which one can infer each defendant’s agreement to violate § 1962(c).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the conspiracy. Since a conspiracy to violate RICO's substantive provisions is itself a violation of RICO ... a person injured”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[s]ection 1962(d)'s target, like that of all provisions prohibiting conspiracies, is the agreement to violate RICO's substantive provisions, not the actual violations themselves.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.