United States of America v. Leodon Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
218 F.3d 1243 · 2000
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States of America v. George Peterson and Pedro Sandoval (2001), 790 So. 2d 1194 - Jones v. State (2001)
18 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Stirone v. United States · Idaho v. Wright · Halper v. Halper · Robinson v. Clock Tower Place Investments, Ltd.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion or attempts or conspires so to do, or commits or threatens physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'manifest[s] a purpose to use all the constitutional power Congress has to punish interference with interstate commerce by extortion, robbery or physical violence.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The government needs only to establish a minimal effect on interstate commerce to support a violation of the Hobbs Act.”
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.