United States v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013
9 federal appellate · 1 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. § 13 (Assimilative Crimes Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on United States v. Best · United States v. Cassiagnol · United States v. Crowthers · United States v. Brown · Hockenberry 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“GSA”] regulation promulgated pursuant to 40 U.S.C. § 318a specifically made it a misdemean- or to carry a concealed weapon onto federal property. The government cited Walker for the proposition that GSA regulations, like the provisions of the UCMJ, are not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here a duly authorized federal regulation of general applicability prohibits a precise act, that act shall be considered an act or omission punishable by an "enactment of Congress”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“act or omission . .. made punishable by any enactment of Congress.”
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.