Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably United States v. Gotti (2006), 136 S. Ct. 1619 - Luna Torres v. Lynch (2016)
39 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 248 (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994)
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Allied-Bruce Terminix Cos., Inc. v. Dobson · United States v. Menasche · Keene Corp. v. United States · Fourco Glass Company v. Transmirra Products Corporation
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) 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. (b) As used in this section— (1) The term “robbery” means the unlawful taking or obtaining of personal property from the person or in the presence of another, against his will, by means of actual or threatened force, or violence, or fear of injury, immediate or future, to his person or property, or property in his custody or possession, or the person or property of a relative or member of his family or of anyone in his company at the time of the taking or obtaining. (2) The term “extortion” means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such statutory terms as 'affect commerce' or 'in commerce' ... as terms of art connecting the congressional exercise of legislative authority with the constitutional provision (here, the Commerce Clause) that grants Congress that authority”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“primarily define[ ] the behavior that the statute calls a 'violation' of federal law,”
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.