Perrin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1,043 federal appellate · 222 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,778 later decisions (74 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Taylor v. United States (1990), Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership (1993)
1,043 federal appellate · 222 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Perrin (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · United States v. Bass · Southeastern Community College v. Davis · Bell v. United States
Cited together with Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership
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 2,778 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A fundamental canon of statutory construction is that, unless otherwise defined, words will be interpreted as taking their ordinary, contemporary, common meaning.”
127 later decisions quote this exact passage“'to be used in complete disregard of the purpose of the legislature.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so long as the requisite interstate nexus is present, [§ 1952] reflects a clear and deliberate intent on the part of Congress to alter the federal-state balance[.]”
3 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.