Dameron v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 724 · 1974
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably Lewis v. United States (1980), United States v. Graves (1977)
25 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Tucker · Burgett v. Texas · Brewer v. United States · Loper v. Beto
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We read the statute to prohibit the interstate transportation of firearms by those who have been constitutionally convicted of a felony.” 488 F.2d at 727 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the meaning of the words of the statute which we hold do not cover a person whose felony conviction is unconstitutional,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statute should explicitly set forth application to unconstitutional convictions, if it is so intended,”
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.