United States v. Preston’s Empirical Analysis
468 F.2d 1007 · 1972
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2011
11 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. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defuse a potentially explosive situation by seizure of the firearms before that explosion occurred,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Kh · In re K.H.
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.