Proyect v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
101 F.3d 11 · 1996
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably United States v. Miller (1997), United States of America v. Ruben Feliciano Nelson Gonzalez (2000)
30 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Lopez · Wickard v. Filburn · Perez v. United States · Maryland v. Wirtz · Preseault v. Interstate Commerce 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that certain intrastate activities within this class ... may not actually have a significant effect on interstate commerce is ... irrelevant”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'determined by the class of activities regulated by the statute as a whole, not by the simple act for which an individual defendant is convicted.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“court [s] must defer to a congressional finding that a regulated activity affects interstate commerce, if there is any rational basis for such a finding.”
2 later decisions 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.