Abraham v. Singh

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that there was a pattern of racketeering when there was no reason to believe the predicate acts would not have continued indefinitely had suit not been filed
• holding that two years was sufficient
• finding open-ended continuity where “systematic victimization” was likely to “have continued indefinitely had the Plaintiffs not filed this lawsuit”
• plaintiff’s assertions “alone cannot create a genuine issue of material fact sufficient to survive summary judgment”
• noting RICO continuity prong not subject to “stringent pleading standard”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

29 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Southern Scrap Material Co. v. Abc Insurance
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-08-25· cited 198×
• Snow Ingredients, Incorporated v. SnoWizard
  Fifth Circuit· 2016-08-15· cited 140×
• North Cypress Medical Center Operating Co. v. Cigna Healthcare
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-03-10· cited 137×
• St. Germain v. Howard
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-01-20· cited 124×
• Albert Malvino v. Paul Delluniversita
  Fifth Circuit· 2016-10-20· cited 45×
• Zastrow v. Houston Auto Imports Greenway Ltd.
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-06-12· cited 33×
• McLachlan v. New York Life Insurance
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-05-31· cited 19×
• Bradley v. Phillips Petroleum Co.
  S.D. Texas· 2007-12-18· cited 12×
• Allstate Insurance Co. v. Benhamou
  S.D. Texas· 2016-06-02· cited 12×
• Cypress/Spanish Fort I, L.P. v. Professional Service Industries, Inc.
  N.D. Texas· 2011-08-29· cited 12×
• Crosswell v. Martinez Cecias Rodriguez
  Fifth Circuit· 2024-10-17· cited 12×
• Castrillo v. American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc.
  E.D. Louisiana· 2009-11-16· cited 11×
• BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP v. Texas Realty Holdings, LLC
  S.D. Texas· 2012-09-28· cited 10×
• D&T Partners v. Baymark Partners
  Fifth Circuit· 2024-04-04· cited 10×
• Adhikari v. Daoud & Partners
  S.D. Texas· 2009-11-03· cited 9×
• Brickley ex rel. CryptoMetrics, Inc. Creditors' Trust v. ScanTech Identification Beams Systems, LLC
  W.D. Texas· 2017-03-02· cited 8×
• Alief Independent School District v. C.C., Ex Rel. Kenneth C.
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-09-09· cited 7×
• Southern Snow Manufacturing Co. v. SnoWizard Holdings, Inc.
  E.D. Louisiana· 2012-12-14· cited 7×
• Cunningham v. Offshore Specialty Fabrications, Inc.
  E.D. Texas· 2008-01-30· cited 5×
• Trevino v. Pechero
  S.D. Texas· 2008-12-09· cited 5×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jones v. Bock
  Supreme Court· 2007-01-22· cited 10,443×
• H. J. Inc. v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,771×
• Cedric Kushner Promotions, Ltd. v. King
  Supreme Court· 2001-06-11· cited 482×
• Tel-Phonic Services, Inc., William Kirk, and John Bowen v. Tbs International, Inc. A/K/A Dy-Con, International, Inc. And the Dispatch Printing Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-10-23· cited 331×
• Unnamed case
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-08-17· cited 254×
• Rubinstein v. Collins
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-05-05· cited 210×
• Crowe v. Henry
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-01-30· cited 110×
• Delta Truck & Tractor, Inc. v. J.I. Case Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-09-20· cited 104×
• In Re Stanislaw R. Burzynski, M.D., and Burzynski Research Institute Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-04-13· cited 98×
• Old Time Enterprises, Inc. v. International Coffee Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-01-13· cited 96×
• Word of Faith World Outreach Center Church, Inc. v. Sawyer
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-08-07· cited 94×
• United States v. Delgado
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-02-16· cited 94×
• Rajiv Khurana v. Innovative Health Care Systems, Inc. Karry Teel Carl Holden William Malone I.H.S. River Region Hospital of Vacherie, La., Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-12-12· cited 55×
• Calcasieu Marine National Bank v. Thomas Arthur Grant, Iii, Suzanne Brunazzi Grant v. Thomas A. Grant, III
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-10-17· cited 51×
• Whelan v. Winchester Production Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-02-05· cited 40×
• Edward C. Abell, Jr. v. Potomac Insurance Company of Illinois, Joe E. Fryar
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-12-11· cited 28×
• Nolen v. Nucentrix Broadband Networks Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-06-26· cited 23×
• Teel v. Khurana
  Supreme Court· 1998-11-09· cited 14×