United States v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
359 F.3d 340 · 2004
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 5031 · 18 U.S.C. § 5037 · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on United States v. Lender · United States v. Langley · 21 Va. App. 519 - Gilliam v. Commonwealth · Hedrick v. Commonwealth · Michael Holland Marty Hudson Elliot Segal Thomas Rand William Hobgood Gail Wilensky Carl Van Horn v. Pardee Coal Company
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It shall be unlawful for (i) any person who has been convicted of a felony or (ii) any person under the age of twenty-nine who was found guilty as a juvenile fourteen years of age or older ... to knowingly and intentionally possess ... any firearm ... any person who violates this section ... shall not be eligible for probation, and shall be sentenced to a minimum, mandatory term of imprisonment of five years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a finding that a person has committed an act of juvenile delinquency involving a violent felony.”
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.