United States v. Loftus’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 793 · 1993
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2015
20 federal appellate ·
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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act)
Relies on Yagow v. United States · Barrett v. United States · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n · Jacobson v. United States · Mitan 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'create[d] a substantial risk that an undisposed person or otherwise law-abiding [person] would commit the offense.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Actual authority over the end result ... is not controlling if [defendant], through his official position, had influence and authority over a means to that end.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this case, we consider whether [defendant] promised to use his official position ... to serve the bribe-giver's interests.”
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.