Interstate or foreign commerce nexus

AND · 18usc1962:commerce

A de minimis effect on interstate commerce by the enterprise's activities (including detrimental effects on victims engaged in commerce) suffices.

Exact element source

engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce
Source: docroot/ir/usc/title18.jsonl#title18_sec1962; Unicode character offsets [1647:1724] (end exclusive); SHA-256 6caae47f43b5ab0899b660616e298363bd36f9f540d915c2be11eb7126f5e27d.
which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce
Source: docroot/ir/usc/title18.jsonl#title18_sec1962; Unicode character offsets [515:601] (end exclusive); SHA-256 6caae47f43b5ab0899b660616e298363bd36f9f540d915c2be11eb7126f5e27d.
which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce
Source: docroot/ir/usc/title18.jsonl#title18_sec1962; Unicode character offsets [1473:1559] (end exclusive); SHA-256 6caae47f43b5ab0899b660616e298363bd36f9f540d915c2be11eb7126f5e27d.

All variants

Recorded DB variant labels, including zero-count variants
VariantDescriptionMerits instance blocksDistinct casesExample cases (up to 3 per group)
affects-commerce/detrimental-effect-without-profit-motive0
Satisfied 0; not satisfied 0; excluded context 1
0No counted merits examples

Excluded context examples: /us/510/0249-01 — Supreme Court of the United States · 1994 — rule-announced/merits

Unspecified variantNo variant assigned in the database.0
Satisfied 0; not satisfied 0; excluded context 3
0No counted merits examples

Excluded context examples: /f-supp/567/1146-01 — United States District Court for the District of New Jersey · 1983 — applied/merits; /f2d/624/1118-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980 — applied/merits; /f3d/660/0346-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2011 — applied/merits

How courts decided this element

Annotation blocks, including explicitly excluded context
CaseElementHolding and scopeVariantExact source quotations
/f-supp/567/1146-01 — United States District Court for the District of New Jersey · 1983Interstate or foreign commerce nexusnot_reached
Excluded from merits counts
applied / merits

claim: (b),(c),(d)

Unspecified variantNo source quotation recorded for this block.
/f2d/624/1118-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980Interstate or foreign commerce nexusnot_reached
Excluded from merits counts
applied / merits

claim: (c)

Unspecified variantNo source quotation recorded for this block.
/f3d/660/0346-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2011Interstate or foreign commerce nexusnot_reached
Excluded from merits counts
applied / merits

claim: (c)

Pleaded only by reciting the statute; not discussed.
Unspecified variantNo source quotation recorded for this block.
/us/510/0249-01 — Supreme Court of the United States · 1994Interstate or foreign commerce nexusnot_reached
Excluded from merits counts
rule-announced / merits

claim: (c),(d)

"Affect" commerce includes harming the commerce of others (the clinics); the commerce clause of (c) does not smuggle in an economic-motive requirement. Whether the commerce nexus is actually met was not separately decided.
affects-commerce/detrimental-effect-without-profit-motive
Petitioners alleged that respondents conspired to use threatened or actual force, violence, or fear to induce clinic employees, doctors, and patients to give up their jobs, give up their economic right to practice medicine, and give up their right to obtain medical services at the clinics.
Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/us_510.jsonl#/us/510/0249-01; Unicode character offsets [2871:3161] (end exclusive); SHA-256 cb4e617ad929914e8013956e456c6d025b7f974213b9a4c541b1fdd0f9d49931.

Evidence kind: fact; polarity: supports; absent flag: 0; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

An enterprise surely can have a detrimental influence on interstate or foreign commerce without having its own profit-seeking motives.
Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/us_510.jsonl#/us/510/0249-01; Unicode character offsets [9808:9942] (end exclusive); SHA-256 cb4e617ad929914e8013956e456c6d025b7f974213b9a4c541b1fdd0f9d49931.

Evidence kind: rule; polarity: not recorded; absent flag: 0; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

Court interpretations

interpretation

An enterprise surely can have a detrimental influence on interstate or foreign commerce without having its own profit-seeking motives.

/us/510/0249-01 — Supreme Court of the United States · 1994

An enterprise surely can have a detrimental influence on interstate or foreign commerce without having its own profit-seeking motives.
Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/us_510.jsonl#/us/510/0249-01; Unicode character offsets [9808:9942] (end exclusive); SHA-256 cb4e617ad929914e8013956e456c6d025b7f974213b9a4c541b1fdd0f9d49931.

A de minimis effect on interstate commerce by the enterprise's activities (including detrimental effects on victims engaged in commerce) suffices.

interpretation

To obtain a conviction under this statute, the government was required to prove "that an enterprise affecting interstate commerce existed; that each defendant knowingly and intentionally agreed with another person to conduct or participate in the affairs of the enterprise; and .

/f3d/932/0242-01

To obtain a conviction under this statute, the government was required to prove "that an enterprise affecting interstate commerce existed; that each defendant knowingly and intentionally agreed with another person to conduct or participate in the affairs of the enterprise; and .
Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_932.jsonl#/f3d/932/0242-01; Unicode character offsets [28535:28814] (end exclusive); SHA-256 57793dd1aba827b59bff9ad538c0e503981d9c40eec6cbde662c786050cc5ea5.

A de minimis effect on interstate commerce by the enterprise's activities (including detrimental effects on victims engaged in commerce) suffices.