United States v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.3d 1321 · 2007
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2020
7 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 885 (§ 515 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Mathews v. United States · Bryan v. United States · United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative · United States v. Reynolds · United States v. Hendricks
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“focus on the motive or purpose of the current possession of firearms, but rather on the fact that a person with three or more violent felony or serious drug convictions currently possesses a firearm”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statute does not invite inquiry into the reason the defendant possessed the [firearm], as long as the defendant knew it was [a firearm] he possessed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowing, as opposed to willful, possession of ammunition”
2 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.