United States v. Heath’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.2d 1069 · 1976
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1996
11 federal appellate ·
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 Glasser v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · United States v. Frugé · United States v. Fauntleroy
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the jury must have credited the sales clerk's testimony that he asked defendant the required questions and that defendant responded falsely”
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.