Waters v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
328 F.2d 739 · 1964
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably United States v. Porth (1970), State v. Littlejohn (1986)
47 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 17 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 26 U.S.C. § 5821 (§ 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. § 6531
Relies on Braverman v. United States · Downum v. United States · Morgan v. Devine · Biddinger v. Commissioner of Police · United States v. Cook
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]f recognition of a distinction between the statute of repose in civil cases and the substantive bar in criminal cases is to have any meaning in the administration of criminal justice, the statute of limitations must be held to affect not only the remedy, but to operate as a jurisdictional limitation upon the power to prosecute and punish.” 328 F.2d at 743 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Noah · James v. Galetka“is not a mere limitation upon the remedy, but a limitation upon the power of the sovereign to act against the accused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the limitation] is to be liberally interpreted in favor of the accused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.