United States v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
184 F.3d 858 · 1999
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Rivas v. United States (2001), United States v. Alexander (2003)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Kotteakos v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Old Chief v. United States · Bell v. United States
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t shall be unlawful for any person who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; ... to ... possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the jury would have learned of [all evidence] regardless which separate charge was brought ... the only remedy that is necessary is to vacate one of the underlying convictions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he usual remedy is to hold that the convictions have merged and order that one be vacated.”
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.