United States v. Beasley’s Empirical Analysis
346 F.3d 930 · 2003
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Nevils (2010), United States v. Younger (2005)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on United States v. Bailey · United States v. Sherbondy · United States v. Alvarez · United States v. Deleveaux · United States v. Singleton
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.
“need only prove that the defendant consciously possessed what he knew to be a firearm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was a direct causal relationship between the criminal action and the avoidance of the threatened harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“he did not recklessly place himself in a situation where he would be forced to engage in criminal conduct”
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.