United States v. Markley’s Empirical Analysis
567 F.2d 523 · 1977
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2008
17 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 26 U.S.C. § 5801 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on United States v. Harriss · Jordan v. De George · United States v. Ronald Leaching, United States of America v. Jerome Tremont · United States v. Ross · United States v. Oba
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither `highly' nor any other modification of `destructive device' is used in the legislation defining destructive device”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he statutory purpose would be ill-served by an interpretation which excluded from coverage `home-made' bombs”
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.