Logan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 15 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Skoien (2010), 131 S. Ct. 18 - Abbott v. United States (2010)
95 federal appellate · 15 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Logan (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 18 U.S.C. § 925
Relies on Dickerson v. New Banner Institute, Inc. · Green v. Bock Laundry MacHine Co. · Markham v. Cabell · Dole v. United Steelworkers · Iselin 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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) As used in this chapter— (20) The term “crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” does not include— (B) any State offense classified by the laws of the State as a misdemeanor and punishable by a term of imprisonment of two years or less.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress has repeatedly barred the Attorney General from using appropriated funds 'to investigate or act upon [relief] applications,' " rendering the provision "inoperative.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kanter v. Barr · Williams v. Barr“[a]ny conviction which has been expunged, or set aside or for which a person has been pardoned or has had civil rights restored”
2 later decisions 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.