Rehaif v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 355 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Bryan Range v. Attorney General United States (2023), State v. Blake (2021)
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1924 · 18 U.S.C. § 2243 · 18 U.S.C. § 2251 (Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Bousley v. United States · Old Chief v. United States · United States v. Bailey · United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
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 355 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Government must prove both that the defendant knew he possessed a firearm and that he knew he belonged to the relevant category of persons barred from possessing a firearm.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o convict a defendant [for a firearm offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)], the government must show that the defendant knew he possessed a firearm and also that he knew he had the relevant status when he possessed it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an alien . . . illegally or unlawfully in the United States”
3 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.