United States v. Moit’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.3d 605 · 1996
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2012
8 federal appellate ·
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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on United States v. Kissinger · United States v. Smith
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who possesses a gun collection owned by another can never receive a section 2K2.1(b)(2) decrease.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Moit argued that the evidence established his father possessed the guns as keepsakes, solely for collection purposes, and that Moit kept the guns in his house for his father. . . . We reject the government's argument that one who possesses a gun collection owned by another can never receive a section 2K2.1(b)(2) decrease.”
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.