United States v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
566 F.2d 1106 · 1977
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
October 1983
most recently cited
9 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute [Federal Youth Corrections Act] is specifically limited to ‘a defendant who has attained his twenty-second birthday but has not attained his twenty-sixth birthday at the time of conviction.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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