Union Bank v. Wolas

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to adopt Grady test in RICO context and limiting its application to “offenses arising from a single discrete event”
• “a federal sentence does not begin to run until the defendant is delivered to the place where the sentence is to be served”
• \we believe that the appellants' primary contention is that the relationship plus continuity test for a pattern of racketeering under RICO is unconstitutionally vague.... Thus H.J. Inc. is more pertinent than Fort Wayne Books to our discussion.\
• “we believe that the appellants’ primary contention is that the relationship plus continuity test for a pattern of racketeering under RICO is unconstitutionally vague.... Thus H.J. Inc. is more pertinent than Fort Wayne Books to our discussion.”
• “The double jeopardy analysis in ... Grady ... cannot easily be transposed to the RICO context____ Instead, we consider the double jeopardy problem posed by the successive prosecutions [in a RICO case] to be more closely analogous to that in [Garrett ]____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Frank Locascio, and John Gotti
  Second Circuit· 1993-10-08· cited 495×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-07-21· cited 373×
• United States v. Richard P. Console, United States of America v. Morton Markoff, D.O., United States of America v. Edward C. Curcio
  Third Circuit· 1993-12-22· cited 357×
• United States v. McGlory
  Third Circuit· 1992-06-19· cited 264×
• United States v. Leonard A. Pelullo
  Third Circuit· 1992-07-27· cited 243×
• State v. Taylor
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-06-07· cited 194×
• State v. Zirkle
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1995-02-13· cited 179×
• United States v. Lewis M. Dischner, United States of America v. Carl W. Mathisen
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-09-11· cited 169×
• United States v. Nopporn Sriyuth, A/K/A Thi Nopporn Sriyuth
  Third Circuit· 1996-10-18· cited 135×
• United States v. William P. Reilly, United States of America v. John Patrick Dowd
  Third Circuit· 1994-08-31· cited 130×
• United States v. Rodolfo Bethancourt
  Third Circuit· 1995-09-06· cited 105×
• John F. Dawson v. Roger Scott, Warden
  Eleventh Circuit· 1995-04-06· cited 96×
• United States v. Richard Lynn Pitt, in No. 98-7383 United States of America v. William Michael Strube, Also Known as Mike Strube, in No. 98-7497
  Third Circuit· 1999-10-15· cited 94×
• Columbia Natural Resources, Inc. v. Tatum
  Sixth Circuit· 1995-07-11· cited 86×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Raphello Harris, Sr.
  Third Circuit· 1991-07-03· cited 81×
• United States v. Bennett
  Eighth Circuit· 1995-01-04· cited 71×
• United States v. Anthony Disalvo, in No. 93-1442. United States of America v. Robert F. Simone, in No. 93-1463
  Third Circuit· 1994-09-29· cited 70×
• Smith, D. v. PA Board of Probation & Parole, Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-10-18· cited 66×
• State v. Bates
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1997-01-31· cited 65×
• United States v. Arleathea Molina-Guevara
  Third Circuit· 1996-09-26· cited 63×