United States v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.3d 754 · 2009
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2024
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Federal Express Corp. v. Holowecki · United States v. Blankenship · United States v. Smith · United States v. Moore · United States v. McDonald
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intentionally struggle[ ] on the ground with the officer and continually reach[ ] toward his waistband during the altercation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whatever [the defendant's] purpose, his efforts to seize his gun did create a substantial risk of bodily injury, whether from accidental discharge or the threat of fire from the police”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in which all the parties are armed carries an obvious risk that the struggle might escalate”
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.