United States v. Stanfield’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 1122 · 1975
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably United States v. Kenny (1981), Castellano-Chacon v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2003)
19 federal appellate · 9 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 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Bridges v. Wixon · United States v. Hibler · Benson v. United States · United States v. Haili · Harris 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e strongly believe that the well established and practical custom of permitting opening statements by counsel at jury trials in criminal cases should be continued in the district courts of this circuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to decide the case only by determining which of the two sets of purported facts was”
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.