United States v. Meade’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.3d 215 · 1999
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 22 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Hayes (2009), 25 Cal. 4th 744 - People v. Garcia (2001)
81 federal appellate · 22 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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. § 16 · 18 U.S.C. § 844 · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on United States v. Olano · Taylor v. United States · Morissette v. United States · Old Chief v. United States · Bouie v. City of Columbia
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) is a misdemeanor under Federal or State law; and (ii) has, as an element, the use or attempted use of physical force, or the threatened use of a deadly weapon, committed by a current or former spouse, parent, or guardian of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabiting with or has cohabited with the victim as a spouse, parent, or guardian, or by a person similarly situated to a spouse, parent, or guardian of the victim.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct and circumstances so presumptively innocent as to fall within the narrow confines of the Lambert exception.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.”
4 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.