United States v. Hedgecoe’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.2d 458 · 1970
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 1991
17 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on McCarthy v. United States · Halliday v. United States · Blankenship v. Cunningham · Gundlach v. United States · Brokaw 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I certify that I am not prohibited by the provisions of * * * the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 from receiving a firearm in interstate or foreign commerce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if he did not know of his disqualification, he acted without the required scienter in certifying that he was qualified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he word 'knowingly' in § 922(a)(6) incorporates scienter as an asserted element of the offense.”
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.