United States v. Swinton’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 1255 · 1975
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2016
14 federal appellate · 2 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)
Relies on Wingo v. Wedding · Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour · Huddleston v. United States · United States v. Miller · Alexander v. Virginia
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall issue [the appropriate license] to a qualified applicant " (emphasis added), see H.R.Rep. No. 1577, 90th Cong., 2d Sess. 16, reprinted in 1968 U.S.CODE CONG. & AD.NEWS 4410, 4422, an apparent reference to the qualifications set forth in § 923(d)(1). The judgment of the district court is 31 Affirmed. 1 The cases not adopting the Stone standard differ not in that they require a higher intensity of activity, but in that they dispense with the requirement of intent to profit: "whether [the person] has guns on hand or is ready and able to procure them for the purpose of selling them from time to time to such persons as might be accepted as customers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]nyone is engaged in the business of dealing in firearms if they have guns on 'hand or are ready and able to procure them, in either case for the purpose of selling some or all of them to such persons as they might from time to time conclude to accept as customers.”
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.