United States v. 16,179 Molso Italian .22 Caliber Winlee Derringer Convertible Starter Guns’s Empirical Analysis
443 F.2d 463 · 1971
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Cuomo (2015), United States v. Deutsch (1971)
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · United States v. Petrillo · United States v. Heckinger · United States v. 16,179 Molso Italian .22 Caliber Winlee Derringer Convertible Starter Guns
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That there may be marginal cases in which it is difficult to determine the side of the line on which a particular fact situation falls is no sufficient reason to hold the language too ambiguous to define a criminal offense. The Constitution does not require impossible standards.” 332 U.S. at 7 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed conduct when measured by common understanding and practices.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application.”
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.