United States v. Lua’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 2014
1 district · 1 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Kastigar v. United States · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · Jusino v. Brown · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Federal Power Commission
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While a contract is made when the parties verbally express their mutual assent to its essential terms, it may also be implied when the parties’ conduct manifests their agreement. See 1 Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 19 (1979).”
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.