United States v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.3d 1343 · 1998
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Sepulveda v. U.S. Attorney General (2005), United States v. Meade (1999)
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
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. § 844 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on United States v. Lopez · United States v. Bass · Henderson v. Brown · Scarborough v. United States · Lewis v. Gober
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It shall be unlawful for any person— (1) who has been convicted in any court, of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate commerce or foreign commerce.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] statute regulating noneconomic activity necessarily satisfies Lopez if it includes a jurisdictional element which would ensure, through case-by-case inquiry, that the defendant's particular offense affects interstate commerce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we have `rejected the argument that Lopez requires Congress to place a jurisdictional element in every statute enacted pursuant to the Commerce Clause'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.