United States v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
92 F.3d 1444 · 1996
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably United States v. Latouf (1997), United States v. Chance (2002)
46 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (§ 43 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 1153 · 18 U.S.C. § 1301 (Charity Games Advertising Clarification Act of 1988) · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1953 · 18 U.S.C. § 1955 · 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 1959
Relies on United States v. Lopez · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · William Marbury v. James Madison · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bass
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Whoever conducts, finances, manages, supervises, directs, or owns all or part of an illegal gambling business shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, (b) As used in this section — (1) “illegal gambling business” means a gambling business which— (I) is a violation of the law of a State or political subdivision in which it is conducted; (ii) involves five or more persons who conduct, finance, manage, supervise, direct, or own all or part of such business; and (iii) has been or remains in substantially continuous operation for a period in excess of thirty days or has a gross revenue of $2,000 in any single day. (2) “gambling” includes but is not limited to pool-selling, bookmaking, maintaining slot machines, roulette wheels or dice tables, and conduct ing lotteries, policy, bolita or numbers games, or selling chances therein.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[b]y its terms, § 1955 is commercial in nature and is not favorably compared to possession of a gun in a school zone, which clearly does not involve commercial activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“activities having a substantial relation to interstate commerce, i.e., those activities that substantially affect interstate commerce.”
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.