United States v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
292 F.2d 89 · 1961
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1989 · most notably United States v. Freed (1971), Sipes v. United States (1963)
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 26 U.S.C. § 5841 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5848 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5851 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Agnello v. United States · Harris v. United States · Hem 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The weapon in question was a tear gas gun. The difference between this gun and the conventional tear gas pencil is that the pencil usually fires a much smaller container of gas. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wall v. AL ZEEB“* * * a tear gas gun capable only of discharging tear gas would not be considered as a firearm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wall v. AL ZEEB
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.