United States v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
363 F.3d 815 · 2004
Citation profile
31 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably United States v. Walker (2005), United States v. Johnson (2007)
31 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Taylor v. United States · Opper v. United States · United States v. Johnson · United States v. Boykin
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constructive possession of the firearm is established if the person has dominion over the premises where the firearm is located, or control, ownership, or dominion over the firearm itself.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall be unlawful for any person- — who has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year ... to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) [Walker] had previously been convicted of a crime punishable by a term of imprisonment exceeding one year; (2) [Walker] knowingly possessed a firearm; [and] (3) the firearm has been in or has affected interstate commerce.”
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.