United States v. Buck’s Empirical Analysis
548 F.2d 871 · 1977
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 522 - People v. Eric J. (1979), Farrow v. United States (1978)
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 42 U.S.C. § 408 (§ 208 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Alderman v. United States · Nardone v. United States · Patterson v. United States · Earley v. DiCenso · Midgett v. Slayton
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for any person in connection with the acquisition or attempted acquisition of any firearm or ammunition from a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector, knowingly to make any false or fictitious oral or written statement or to furnish or exhibit any false, fictitious, or misrepresented identification, intended or likely to deceive such importer, manufacturer, dealer, or collector with respect to any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale or other disposition of such firearm or ammunition under the provisions of this chapter[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“within the discretion of the trial judge and . . . where, as here, the sentence falls within the bounds prescribed by statute, it is not reviewable.”
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.