United States v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.2d 214 · 1977
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably United States v. Michel (1979), United States v. Henry (1983)
51 federal appellate · 2 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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5871 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Glasser v. United States · Wong Sun v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Adams v. Williams
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this Court [has] recognized that “a police officer may in appropriate circumstances and in an appropriate manner approach a person for purposes of investigating possibly criminal behavior even though there is no probable cause to make an arrest.” The Fourth Amendment does not require a policeman who lacks the precise level of information necessary for probable cause to arrest to simply shrug his shoulders and allow a crime to occur or a criminal to escape. On the contrary ... it may be the essence of good police work to adopt an intermediate response. A brief stop of a suspicious individual, in order to determine his identity or to maintain the status quo momentarily while obtaining more information, may be the most reasonable in light of the facts known to the officer at the time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“rationale of Rollins for purposes of Sec. 5871 sentencing. 14 Id. at 219. 15 McDaniel concerned an issue of statutory maximum sentences, as distinguished from the guideline adjustment at issue in this case. Even if, arguendo, we were to concur with the Fifth Circuit's conclusion that possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and possession of an unregistered firearm constitute a single act, we have consistently held that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial court erred in imposing cumulative sentences of multiple convictions under the federal firearms statute. Defendant was convicted of possession of an unregistered firearm, in violation of § '5861(d), possession of the same firearm with obliterated serial number, in violation of § 5861(h), and transportation of the same unregistered firearm in interstate commerce, in violation of § 5861(j).”
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.