United States v. Steeves’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.2d 33 · 1975
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Scarborough v. United States (1977), United States v. Dennis (1980)
69 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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
Relies on United States v. Bass · Patterson v. United States · Babich v. United States · United States v. District Court · SGRO 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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]eople who own pistols generally keep them at home or on their persons.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is axiomatic by now that under the fourth amendment that probable cause upon which a valid search warrant must be based must exist at the time in which the warrant was issued, not at some earlier time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. [I]f a convicted felon receives a firearm on one occasion and later receives another firearm on another occasion, he is guilty of two offenses assuming that prior to the respective receipts the two guns had moved in interstate commerce.”
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.