United States v. Calder’s Empirical Analysis
641 F.2d 76 · 1981
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011 · most notably Calder v. United States (1981), Matteo v. Superintendent (1999)
31 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 5010
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · United States v. Henry · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Mahan v. Howell
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t was for the court to determine as a matter of law the jurisdictional question of whether the alleged conduct affected interstate commerce; it was for the jury to determine whether the alleged conduct had in fact occurred”
1 later decision 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.