United States v. Buffaloe’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.2d 779 · 1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2025
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 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)
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree with the district judge that Buffaloe was adjudicated and committed within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 922 (d)(4), which prohibits the sale of firearms to a person who has been adjudicated a mental defective or who has been committed to any mental institution. We also conclude that the statute is not unconstitutional as to Buffaloe because 16 months later he was discharged from the hospital. 449 F.2d at 780 .”
2 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.