United States v. Bergeman’s Empirical Analysis
592 F.2d 533 · 1979
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Dickerson v. New Banner Institute, Inc. (1983), Paredes-Urrestarazu v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1994)
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 925 · 18 U.S.C. § 927 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on United States v. Bass · Bell v. United States · Rewis v. United States · United States v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp. · Ladner 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No provision of this chapter shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of the Congress to occupy the field in which such provision operates to the exclusion of the law of any State on the same subject matter, unless there is a direct and positive conflict between such provision and the law of the State so that the two cannot be reconciled or consistently stand together.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“if it is established to his satisfaction that the circumstances regarding the conviction, and the applicant's record and reputation, are such that the applicant will not be likely to act in a manner dangerous to public safety and that the granting of the relief would not be contrary to the public interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““Have you been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year? . . . The actual sentence given by the judge does not matter — a yes answer is necessary if the judge could have given a sentence of more than one year.” 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.