United States v. Hamrick’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.3d 877 · 1995
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably United States v. Williams (2008), United States v. Lewis (1995)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1114 · 18 U.S.C. § 115 · 18 U.S.C. § 1716 · 18 U.S.C. § 1791 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 751 · 18 U.S.C. § 871 (Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Neil v. Biggers · United States v. Turkette · Russello v. United States · Soberon 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bring on heart attacks and other untoward medical consequences”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The role of the courts in cases of statutory construction is to give effect to Congressional intent, Negonsott v. Samuels, 507 U.S. 99 , 113 S.Ct. 1119 , 122 L.Ed.2d 457 (1993); to do more is to transgress the boundaries of the Articles of the Constitution and to engage ourselves as legislators rather than jurists, to allow ourselves to say what we think the law is, or ought to be, rather than what Congress has told us it is. While this temptation hangs always before the judiciary as a tantalizing fruit, it is to us constitutionally forbidden. Because our concern is to carry out that which Congress has wrought, in determining whether any action or situation falls within the borders of the class of activities Congress intended to reach through statutory prohibition we begin with the words of the statute itself, for if they are clear and unambiguous, the task of the courts is ended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(c) Whoever— (1) uses a firearm to commit any felony for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the United States ... shall, in addition to the punishment provided for in the commission of such felony, be sentenced lo a term of imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than ten years.”
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.