Charles Gilbert Gibbs’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Melvin Urofsky, Rancho Viejo, LLC v. Norton (2003)
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 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
Relies on United States v. Lopez · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · William Marbury v. James Madison · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The irony of disregarding limits on ourselves in the course of enforcing limits upon others will assuredly not be lost on those who look to courts to respect restraints imposed by rules of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The term `channel of interstate commerce' refers to, inter alia, `navigable rivers, lakes, and canals of the United States; the interstate railroad track system; the interstate highway system; ... interstate telephone and telegraph lines; air traffic routes; television and radio broadcast frequencies).'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]lthough States have important interests in regulating wildlife and natural resources within their borders, this authority is shared with the Federal Government when the Federal Government exercises one of its enumerated constitutional powers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.