United States v. Hopson’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.3d 795 · 1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2012
5 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 2321 · 18 U.S.C. § 2322 · 18 U.S.C. § 3651 · 18 U.S.C. § 659 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Withrow v. Williams · Republic of Ghana v. Trefalcon Corp. · Roberts v. United States · Rondon v. Indiana · United States v. Galiffa
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any building, lot, facility, or other structure or premises where one or more persons engage in receiving, concealing, destroying, disassembling, dismantling, reassembling, or storing any passenger motor vehicle or passenger motor vehicle part which has been unlawfully obtained in order to alter, counterfeit, deface, destroy, disguise, falsify, forge, obliterate, or remove the identity, including vehicle identification number or derivative thereof, of such vehicle or vehicle part and to distribute, sell, or dispose of such vehicle or vehicle part in interstate or foreign commerce.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if he violated the terms of his probation. The question in interpreting the 1988 pronouncement was:”
2 later decisions 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.