United States v. Mostad’s Empirical Analysis
485 F.2d 199 · 1973
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2003 · most notably Dickerson v. New Banner Institute, Inc. (1983), United States v. Potts (1975)
33 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on United States v. Synnes · Stevens v. United States · Wiley v. United States · United States v. Crow
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 1201. Congressional Findings and Declaration “The Congress hereby finds and declares that the receipt, possession, or transportation of a firearm by felons, veterans who are discharged under dishonorable conditions, mental incompetents, aliens who are illegally in the country, and former citizens who have renounced their citizenship, constitutes— (1) a burden on commerce or threat affecting the free flow of commerce, (2) a threat to the safety of the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States, (3) an impediment or a threat to the exercise of free speech and the free exercise of a religion guaranteed by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and (4) a threat to the continued and effective operation of the Government of the United States and of the government of each State guaranteed by article IV of the Constitution.” § 1202. Receipt, possession, or transportation of firearms — Persons liable; penalties for violations (a) Any person who— (1) has been convicted by a court of the United States or of a State or any political subdivision thereof of a felony, . . . and who receives, possesses, or transports in commerce or affecting commerce, after the date of enactment of this Act, any firearm shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both. (c) As used in this title— (2) ‘felony’ means any offense punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, but does not include any offense (o”
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.