United States v. Garr’s Empirical Analysis
461 F.2d 487 · 1972
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2008 · most notably Brewer v. United States (1972), United States v. Partin (1974)
23 federal appellate · 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 5841 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Chapman v. State of California · Harrington v. California · United States v. Freed · O'Brien 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“district court has wide discretion in determining relevance and materiality and its ruling should not be disturbed in the absence of an abuse of discretion.”
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.