Castro v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
296 F.2d 540 · 1961
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably United States v. Elliott (1978), United States v. Perez (1973)
31 federal appellate · 2 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 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Parr v. United States · Ingram v. United States · Bryan v. United States · Guevara v. United States · Carlson 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not believe this situation was susceptible of correction by instruction, however careful and complete.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“done in furtherance of the object of the conspiracy”
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.