United States v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
579 F.2d 990 · 1978
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably United States v. Fagan (1987), 83 Ill. 2d 319 - People v. Barker (1980)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
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. § 875
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Morissette v. United States · Hamling v. United States · Hagner v. United States · United States v. Dotterweich
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly, if Congress attempted to define a malum prohibitum offense that placed an onerous stigma on an offender's reputation and that carried a severe penalty, the Constitution would be offended....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'an admission of guilt for the purposes of the case.'”
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.