United States v. DeBartolo’s Empirical Analysis
482 F.2d 312 · 1973
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Staples v. United States (1994), United States v. Bell (1978)
46 federal appellate · 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 26 U.S.C. § 5812 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · United States v. Dotterweich · Lambert v. People of the State of California · United States v. Freed
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'knows that he is dealing with a dangerous device of such type as would alert one to the likelihood of regulation.'”
10 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.