United States v. Three Winchester 30-30 Caliber Lever Action Carbines’s Empirical Analysis
504 F.2d 1288 · 1974
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably United States v. Harris (1976), Gillespie v. City of Indianapolis (1999)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 18 U.S.C. § 1162 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 26 U.S.C. § 7401 · 28 U.S.C. § 1345
Relies on United States v. Bass · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Reid v. Covert · Lubin v. Allison
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[FJederal laws of general applicability ... have nothing to do with the regulation of any . . . Indian treaty right. Any effect on the defendant’s right to hunt is merely incidental, and applicable only to him. The treaty rights allegedly abridged belong to the tribe as a whole and not to any one individual.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the present case federal criminal laws are involved and nothing in Public Law 280 or any other law precludes their application to Menominee Indians.” The precedential effect of Three Winchester is limited, however, because the Court did not address the language in Public Law 280 upon which the Defendants rely; namely, that the listed States”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Congress has made a reasonable determination that convicted felons should not be able to possess, receive or transport firearms.”
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.