529 F. Supp. 1006 - Mid-Fla Coin Exchange, Inc. v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2016
8 federal appellate · 8 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. § 923 · 26 U.S.C. § 5301 · 29 U.S.C. § 657 (§ 8 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 41 U.S.C. § 35 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Brinegar v. United States · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Pierson v. Ray · Grayned v. City of Rockford
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.
“any item containing any gold, silver, or platinum, or any combination thereof, excluding: (a) Any chemical or any automotive, photographic, electrical, medical, or dental materials or electronic parts. (b) Any coin with an intrinsic value less than its numismatic value. (c) Any gold bullion coin. (d) Any gold, silver, or platinum bullion that has been assayed and is properly marked as to its weight and fineness. (e) Any coin which is mounted in a jewelry setting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moo Young“(b) No provision of any law in effect on the date of enactment of this Act; and no rule, regulation or order in effect on the date subsections (a) and (b) became effective may be construed to prohibit any person from purchasing, holding, selling, or otherwise dealing with gold in the United States or abroad, (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“serious doubt that the statutes set out with a `reasonable degree of certainty' what conduct is required or proscribed on behalf of those subjected to their provisions... . Moreover, the ambiguous provisions of the statutes could operate to encourage arbitrary and erratic arrests and convictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moo Young
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.