Firestone v. Galbreath

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the RICO statute as applied unconstitutionally vague based upon the \pattern\ requirement
• holding “pattern” requirement in RICO unconstitutionally vague
• pattern requirement unconstitutionally vague as to “isolated and sporadic” predicate acts stemming from “a dispute between family members concerning whether certain property should have remained in a relative’s estate”
• RICO held unconstitutionally vague because the alleged predicate acts were \isolated and sporadic\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Spinner v. Nutt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-04-14· cited 153×
• Firestone v. Galbreath
  Sixth Circuit· 1992-09-23· cited 46×
• United States v. Eisenberg
  D. New Jersey· 1991-07-26· cited 31×
• Browning Avenue Realty Corp. v. Rubin
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1994-08-04· cited 25×
• Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co. v. Mutual Trading Corp.
  N.D. Illinois· 1990-09-27· cited 21×
• Firestone v. Galbreath
  Sixth Circuit· 1992-10-21· cited 19×
• Bseirani v. Mahshie
  N.D. New York· 1995-03-02· cited 10×
• Erickson v. Erickson
  S.D. West Virginia· 1994-04-14· cited 8×
• Firestone v. Galbreath
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-05-31· cited 8×
• Schrag v. Dinges
  D. Kansas· 1992-01-07· cited 7×

Cites

61 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Conley v. Gibson
  Supreme Court· 1957-11-18· cited 30,380×
• Scheuer v. Rhodes
  Supreme Court· 1974-04-17· cited 13,385×
• Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 9,657×
• Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-24· cited 6,491×
• Sedima, S. P. R. L. v. Imrex Co.
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-01· cited 3,595×
• H. J. Inc. v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,771×
• Rode v. Dellarciprete
  Third Circuit· 1988-04-28· cited 2,709×
• United States v. Turkette
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-17· cited 2,648×
• New York v. Ferber
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,505×
• United States v. Harriss
  Supreme Court· 1954-06-07· cited 1,827×
• Edward E. Westlake v. William Lucas, Sheriff of Wayne County
  Sixth Circuit· 1976-07-29· cited 1,321×
• Peterson v. Teodosio
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1973-05-30· cited 575×
• United States v. Powell
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-09· cited 550×
• Markham v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1946-01-07· cited 482×
• Paul Bender, George and Diane Decarlo v. Southland Corporation
  Sixth Circuit· 1984-12-07· cited 407×
• United States v. Elliott
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-04-21· cited 305×
• Beck v. Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.
  Second Circuit· 1987-06-01· cited 272×
• United States v. Bledsoe
  Eighth Circuit· 1982-03-12· cited 236×
• Carl Thomas Rauch, III v. Day and Night Manufacturing Corporation
  Sixth Circuit· 1978-05-03· cited 227×
• United States v. Rex C. Cauble, Individually and Doing Business as Cauble Enterprises
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-08-11· cited 210×