Janet Reno Attorney Generals v. Charlie Condon Attorney General of South Carolina’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 42 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 436 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Environmental Defense Center, Inc. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.-Intervenor, v. United States Environmental Protection Agency (2003), Koslow v. Pennsylvania (2002)
137 federal appellate · 42 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 15 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
reviewedCondon v. Reno (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2721 (§ 300002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on United States v. Lopez · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · New York v. United States · Printz v. United States · South Carolina v. Baker
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 436 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a `constitutional exercise of legislative power.'”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage“establishes a regulatory scheme that restricts the States' ability to disclose a driver's personal information without the driver's consent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because drivers' information [information contained in the records of a state motor-vehicle department] is, in this context, an article of commerce, its sale or release into the interstate stream of business is sufficient to support congressional regulation.”
2 later decisions 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.