Huddleston v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
446 federal appellate · 63 district · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 898 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Lanier (1997), Chapman v. United States (1991)
446 federal appellate · 63 district · 141 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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
reviewedUnited States v. Huddleston (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Bass · United States Marcus v. Hess · Rewis v. United States · United States v. Wiltberger
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 898 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“firearms out of the hands of those not legally entitled to possess them because of age, criminal background, or incompetency.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“grievous ambiguity or uncertainty in the language and structure of the Act,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is unlawful for any person who . . has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year ... to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.”
5 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.