United States v. Pulliam’s Empirical Analysis
566 F.3d 784 · 2009
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2022
13 federal appellate ·
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) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Giglio v. United States · Whren v. United States · Shepard 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t goes without saying that displaying an operational weapon before another in an angry or threatening manner qualifies as a threatened use of physical force.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]xhibits, in the presence of one or more persons, any weapon readily capable of lethal use in an angry or threatening manner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another,”
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.