United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.3d 1274 · 1997
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2012
7 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on United States v. Lopez · Caminetti v. United States · New York v. United States · Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States · Berkery v. Commissioner
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, Congress may regulate the use of the channels of interstate commerce ... Second, Congress is empowered to regulate and protect the instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or persons or things in interstate commerce, even though the threat may come only from intrastate activities ... Finally, Congress’ commerce authority includes the power to regulate those activities having a substantial relation to interstate commerce ..., i.e., those activities that substantially affect interstate commerce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“falls within Congress's authority to 'keep the channels of interstate commerce free from immoral and injurious uses.'”
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.