Logan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably United States v. Mason (2001), 280 Pa. Super. 399 - Dunn v. Teti (1980)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Wilson v. United States · Cooke v. United States · Blango v. United States · Dandridge v. United States · Hurt v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to assert the defense of innocent or momentary possession, an accused must show not only an absence of criminal purpose but also that his possession was excused and justified as stemming from an affirmative effort to aid and enhance social policy underlying law enforcement. ... [Id. at 248.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the firearm was attained innocently and held with no illicit purpose and (2) possession of the firearm was transitory— i.e., in light of the circumstances presented, there is a good basis to find that the defendant took adequate measures to rid himself of possession of the firearm as promptly as reasonably possible. In particular, “a defendant’s actions must demonstrate both that he had the intent to turn the weapon over to the police and that he was pursuing such an intent with immediacy and through a reasonable course of conduct.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Congress' goal [in enacting CPWL] was to prevent an individual from carrying an unlicensed pistol on the street because of the danger that such a person would pose to the community as a result (1) of the inherent dangerousness of the weapon he carried, and (2) of the absence of any evidence of his capability to carry safely such a dangerous instrumentality.”) (internal quotation marks and footnote call omitted). In the Inoperable Pistol Amendment Act of 2009, which repealed the licensing provision, the Council also omitted operability as an element of CPWL, reasoning that,”
1 later decision 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.